Above: At the National Archeological Museum, a wooden anthropomorphic coffin of Baktamun, covered with tar. Her mask and parts of the wig and necklace are gilt plaster.
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1 is a wooden statue of a servant woman grinding grains in the masteba (tomb) of the coutier Ti, 2416-2392 BC.
2 shows two "Fayum" funery portraits.
3 shows a group of students performing a play in the museum gardens.
4 is detail from a tile floor showing a gorgon with wings and snakes for her hair, found in Piraeus (where the port now is), 2nd century AD.
5 is from the "Beauty" exhibit and shows gold cup and kylix with rozettes, 16th century BC.
6 and 7 show a painting in the stairwell to get to the 2nd floor of the museum.
8 shows detail from an Attica krater, 750-735 BC.
9 is a Minoan style wall painting.
10 is a skyphos shows the arming of a warrior, by the painter Nicosia Olpe, 540-530 BC.
11 shows two lekythos from Eretria, one with a youth leading a horse, the other showing one warrior killing another, by the Syracuse painter 470-460 BC.
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