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Amarna Artefacts. Ivory writing palette with rush brushes of Princess Meketaten dating to regnal year 13 of the reign of Akhenaten (26.7.1295). It is inscribed with "the king's own beloved daughter Meketaten born of chief wife Neferneferuaten-Nefertiti, given life forever eternally". The text suggest that this was a mortuary gift. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.


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