ANCIENT EGYPTIAN STUDY GROUP - 10 Disks

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A family gathers for some sort of celebration. There are three generations depicted on this card. On the lower left are the mother and father. Seated before them is their son, who is writing on a papyrus scroll. Above the mother are her daughter and son-in-law (it's their baby, her first grandchild, that the mother holds). To their right is the third child of the family.

Before them stands a foreign merchant displaying a diaphanous cloth that's embroidered with golden disks in the form of the Tree of Life. The black fabric against which the three people at the top of the card lean is imprinted with ankhs and has a border comprised of lotus flowers.

Rodney