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Trees


Cedars, pines, fruit trees etc.



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Tree-goddess Nut offers food and drink to the deceased. The Book of the Dead by Censumose, a priest of Amun-Re. Papyrus. 21st Dynasty (1080-960 BCE), 3rd Intermediate Period, Egypt.
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Tree-goddess Nut offers food and drink to the deceased. The Book of the Dead by...

Tree-goddess offers vivifying waters to the deceased. Mural from the tomb of Kha, architect of Amenophis III (1403-1365 BCE), 18th Dynasty, Deir el-Medina, Egypt.
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Tree-goddess offers vivifying waters to the deceased. Mural from the tomb of K...

Tree-goddess offers food and drink. Detail from a relief fragment of the tomb of Sekeh, mayor of Memphis (about 1380 BCE), 18th Dynasty, New Kingdom, Egypt. Inv. 5818
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Tree-goddess offers food and drink. Detail from a relief fragment o...

The Goddess of the sycamore tree offers water to the dead Kamose who offers to Osiris, Horus, Isis, and Hathor. Upper register of Kamose's stele. Limestone (around 1200 BCE), 20th Dynasty, New Kingdom, Egypt. Inv. 7291
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The Goddess of the sycamore tree offers water to the dead Kamose who offe...

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...

Kenro and his wife in their garden. Thebes, tomb of Neferronpe, also called Kenro,No.178 Period of Ramses II (1291-1225 BCE) Ancient Egyptian Paintings selected,copied & descibed by Nina M.Davies; plate XCIV
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Kenro and his wife in their garden. Thebes, tomb of Neferron...

The sun-boat or funeral-boat of Pharaoh Cheops.The 1224 individual parts of the boat were discovered in 1954 in a deep ditch next to the Cheops pyramid. Such boats were used in the ritual voyage of the dead Pharaoh along the Nile. Cedar wood, L:46 m
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The sun-boat or funeral-boat of Pharaoh Cheops.The 1224 individual parts of the...

The sacred lake, now a grove of palm trees, Hathor Temple, Dendera. The former brick walls of the temple precinct are now mounds of mud.
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The sacred lake, now a grove of palm trees, Hathor Temple, Dendera. The for...

Rampant ram with blossoming bush (tree of life?). Golden figure on wooden core, with lapis lazuli, shells, and red limestone (25th BCE), from the Great Death-pit at Ur WA 122200
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Rampant ram with blossoming bush (tree of life?). Golden figure on wooden...

Tree of life with two rampant rams. Relief, early Sumerian (25th BCE),from the Death-Pit at Ur,Mesopotamia. WA 122200
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Tree of life with two rampant rams. Relief, early Sumerian (...

A bearded man holding a palm-tree. Ivory figure (20th-16th BCE) 25.5 x 10.3 cm Nr. 61882
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A bearded man holding a palm-tree. Ivory figure (20th-16th...

Men carrying cedar wood for palace construction. Bas-relief from the palace of King Sargon II at Khorsabad, Mesopotamia (Iraq). Detail Total height: 197 cm - total length: 245 cm AO 19891
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Men carrying cedar wood for palace construction. Bas-relief from the pala...