::You don't need the Rosetta Stone to decipher what's going on here! From the Brooklyn Museum Egyptian Antiquities Collection.
I guess if it's old enough it becomes an "artifact" no matter what it is. I was still kind of startled and amazed to see this on display in full view of men, women, and children of all ages given the general sex-phobic hypocrisy of our culture.
Perhaps the museum curators figure that at this point in the exhibition the eyes of most visitors are so glazed over from the endless array of pottery fragments, badly hammered jewelry, chipped scarabs and time-eroded hieroglyphic tablets that no would would notice. In fact, I had to shake myself out of a half-trance to make sure that I was seeing aright. No postcard of this in the gift shop; I looked.
Gives new depth and meaning to the Go-Go's song "Walk Like an Egyptian."::
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