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The Supreme Council of Antiquities’ efforts enabled the return of the head referred to a 19th Dynasty queen that was illegally sent to London around 1990. The queen is wearing a three sectional wig fixed with a double ribbon, two ornamentations representing the northern and southern crowns decorate the ribbons ending to the extremities with two lotus flowers tied up together. The back column bears hieroglyphic inscriptions that are the queen’s titles and her cultic position.
Stella from Seti I compartment, the depictions represent a deity breastfeeding the (king) and Seti I cartouche, the Stella was found during the last century’s beginning of the forties and disappeared few years later. The Metropolitan in 1998 acknowledged the SCA the acquisition of the Stella that was sent back after Diplomatic settlements 4/8/2001. Limestone, Miet Rahina