Relief panel showing two baboons offering the wedjat eye to the sun god Khepri, who holds the Underworld sign, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–200 BC, From Egypt, Limestone, H. 30.9 cm (12 3/16 in.); W. 39.3 cm (15 1/2 in.); D. 6 cm (2 3/8 in.), In this scene, two baboons offer wedjat eyes to Khepri, the newborn sun represented by a beetle. In his front legs Khepri holds a disk with a star, which is the sign for the Duat or Underworld, and beneath him there is a sun with rays
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