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Talatat with plant motif decoration

c. 1340 B.C.
Turin, Museo delle Antichità Egizie
Inv. S. 18140, S. 18146

 

These talatat (the name may derive from talata, "three" in Arab, referring to their three dimensions) were part of a wall decoration representing bunches of grapes with lotus flowers and leaves.