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Image: Stele Apis Shoshenq V 37 Mariette

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Description: Some of Auguste Mariette's finding from the Lesser vaults of the Serapeum of Saqqara, mainly statuettes of the gods Apis and Ptah. In the background, one of the steles commemorating the burial of an Apis bull in Year 37 of Aakheperre Shoshenq V, pharaoh of the 22nd Dynasty. The stele is now in Cairo Museum.
Title: Stele Apis Shoshenq V 37 Mariette
Credit: Voyage dans la Haute Égypte, I, Paris, 1878, pl. 13.
Author: Auguste Mariette (1821-1881)
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