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hieroglyphs of horses and the Field of Reeds in a modern arrangement

The Field of Reeds - Chapter 110
Lepsius copy of the Field of Reeds
The Field of Reeds from a Ptolemaic Book of the Dead, hand copied by Lepsius in the 1840s. Variously translated as the Field of Offerings, Field of Peace, or Blessed Fields or Elysian Fields, it preserves the pleasures of ancient Egyptian life for eternity.

 
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