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Buddhist paintings on the first-floor gallery of Shalu Monastery. First from left, sitting on lotus flower, is the"Buddha of Immeasurable Splendour" Shalu was much damaged during the Cultural Revolution. Of the former 300 monks, only 20 remain today.
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Buddhist paintings on the first-floor gallery of Shalu Monastery. First f...

Bowl with "broken profile", porcelain, white on dark blue with lotus and fish. Diameter: 17,5 cm H: 8 cm Quing-dynasty, Yung-Cheng-period (1723-1735) G 1569
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Bowl with "broken profile", porcelain, white on dark blue with lotus...

Fragment depicting a lotus flower. From Tas Silg, Malta Bone, 3,5 x 3,5 cm
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Fragment depicting a lotus flower. From Tas Silg, Malta...

Slave girl of Rekhmere's household helps a guest put on a lotus necklace. Behind: a servant with fruit and bread. Detail of a wallpainting in the tomb of Rekhmere, vizier under Pharaohs Thutmosis III and Amenophis II (18th Dynasty), in the cemetery of Sheikh Abd al-Qurnah
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Slave girl of Rekhmere's household helps a guest put on a lotus necklace. Behin...

Girl and lotus flower. Limestone relief from Memphis, Egypt. Old Kingdom (2950-2135 BCE) E 10971
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Girl and lotus flower. Limestone relief from Memphis, Egy...

Temple of Amon, Karnak. Lotus flower and papyrus capitals, the symbols of Upper and Lower Egypt. New Kingdom (1580-1200 BCE)
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Temple of Amon, Karnak. Lotus flower and papyrus capitals, th...

Harpocrates, the young Horus, son of Horus the Elder and Isis, sitting on a lotus. Part of a shrine. Ptolemaic, 4th-3rd BCE From the shrine of a god, wood with inlaid glass. Inv. 98
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Harpocrates, the young Horus, son of Horus the Elder and Isis, sitting on a...

Horus as a boy on a lotus blossom. Bronze figurine, Ptolemaic Period, Egypt. Hellenistic influence (150 BCE).
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Horus as a boy on a lotus blossom. Bronze figurine,...

Hippopotamus, decorated with bird, reeds and lotus flower, from a tomb in Thebes, Egypt. Turquoise glazed ceramics with brown linear ornaments, 12th Dynasty (20th-18th BCE), Middle Kingdom. Inv. 4211
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Hippopotamus, decorated with bird, reeds and lotus flower, from a tomb in Thebe...

Harpocrates, Horus the child, on a lotus flower. 26th Dynasty (664-525 BCE) Late Period, Egypt. Height 15 cm
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Harpocrates, Horus the child, on a lotus flower....

Lotus and papyrus capitals on the columns of the Hypostyle Hall, Temple of Khnum (3rd BCE), Ptolemaic Period, Egypt.
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Lotus and papyrus capitals on the columns of the Hypostyle Hall,...

The dead Sennedjem and his wife are clad in white linen wearing cones of funeral ointment on their heads. They receive water for cleansing, bread, and lotus flowers from Isis, who appears in the holy sycamore tree. Workmen's Tombs (13th BCE), Deir el-Medina, Egypt.
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The dead Sennedjem and his wife are clad in white linen wearing cones of funeral...