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Description: A landscape of Punt, showing several houses on stilts, two fruiting date palms, three myrrh trees, a bird (Cinnyris metallica), a cow, and unidentified fish and a turtle, in water which in the original was green to show that it is salt or tidal.[1] From the walls of the mortuary temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahri, depicting a royal expedition to Punt.
Title: Punt houses
Credit: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/edwards/pharaohs/pharaohs-8.html
Author: Deir-el-Bahari, plate 5. Published in the late 1800s by François Auguste Ferdinand Mariette, who died in 1881.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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