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Ramesses III and Isis

Isis embraces Ramesses III. The goddess wears a red dress with a blue belt. On her blue wig she wears the typical Nekhbet (vulture clutching the shen symbol) headdress with modius adorned with urei and a solar disc with bovine horns. Ramesses III embraces and salutes the goddess and wears the blue khepresh crown, generally used in military or ceremonial contexts. Behind the king one glimpses the god Thot, who wears the lunar disc and crescent on his head to emphasise his link with the nocturnal star, while behind the goddess Isis, Prince Amonherkhepshef holds the Khu flabellus, made of a single ostrich feather.

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