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Menat

A Menat from the
late 18th Dynasty
Menat was a fetish of manliness, depicted on reliefs and statues of the god Khons and worn  by Egyptians to foster fertility and health in women  and virility in men. In this form the menat was fashioned out of glaze ware. The amulet was as well based in the mummy swathes of the gone in mortuary rites.

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