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The mystery of the bee's fifth leg

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Description

The author analyses the various depictions of the bee hieroglyph (Garinder L2) with examples from the Dynasty 1-19 and compares these with the morphology of bees, wasps and hornets.
Date made available1 Sept 2024
PublisherMacquarie University

Keywords

  • animals in ancient Egypt
  • iconography

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