Female dancer from Deir el-Medina
β« This limestone ostracon (Museo Egizio. Cat. 7052) was discovered in the famous Worker's Village of Deir el-Medina. Dating from approximately, 1292β1076 B.C., this piece was created within the 19th or 20th Dynasty.
Deir el-Medina (Set Maβat) was a workmanβs village, which was state commissioned and owned. The artisans and architects who would design and build the tombs of the royals and elite would live there for many centuries with their families.
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