FRAGMENTARY UNIFICATION SIGN, depicting the uniting of clumps of lotus flowers, two sitting in pools of water, opaque yellow, white, grey and translucent blue canes, in brick red matrix
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FRAGMENTARY UNIFICATION SIGN, depicting the uniting of clumps of lotus flowers, two sitting in pools of water, opaque yellow, white, grey and translucent blue canes, in brick red matrix
3rd-1st Century B.C.
2.8 x 2.3cm., 0.5cm. thick
Lot Essay
Sm3 (unification) sign represents the lungs and windpipe; normally this symbol represents the unification of the Two Lands, symbolised by the papyrus and lotus flowers. Cf. Goldstein, no. 665