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‘The Hidden Stela of Meretseger’

Margaret Benson (1865-1916)

‘Entrée de l'Hôtel’ complete with statues of the Lioness Goddess Sekhmet,

taken from the Temple of Mut at Karnak.

“…and a great cat-headed statue, wrought in black granite, and taken away from the
neighbouring temple of Mut in Karnak, looks with steadfast gaze out and beyond

over the Eastern horizon, with eyes focussed beyond material range, as if waiting for
the dawn of the everlasting day… It was close beside the great cat-headed god,

sheltered by the thicket of bamboo and withdrawn a little from the publicity of the
path, that Abdul had caused their table to be laid, and the white tablecloth, glistening

with silver and lit by shaded candles, made a vivid and a modem note in the antique
darkness.” 6.1
‘The Image in the Sand’, Edward Frederic Benson, 1905

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