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Culture of Ancient Egypt. Limestone pyramidion with the image of a man and hieroglyphic inscriptions. Hermitage Museum #240830442
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Pyramidion is the Greek name for a pyramid-shaped stone that the ancient Egyptians placed on top of an Egyptian pyramid or obelisk. In the Egyptian language, it was called `benbenet` and was associated with the sacred stone benben, on which, according to legend, the rays of the ascending solar demiurge god Atum the hypostasis of the god Ra fell. This pyramidion is exhibited in the Egyptian Hall of the State Hermitage Museum. Saint-Petersburg, Russia
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