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Dr Campbell Price
@EgyptMcr
Curator of one of the UK's largest Egyptian & Sudanese collections @McrMuseum Egyptologist, Fellow @LivUni, Chair @TheEES (he/him) امين متحف, متخصص بعلم مصريات
Jan 5, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
I've always been fascinated by this guy, the Overseer of the House of Silver in the reign of #Tutankhamun, called Maya, the owner of a splendid tomb at #Saqqara... ... In it he says, “I was the mouth of the king in order to make splendid the temples, to fashion the images of the gods. I was one who entered and saw the House of Gold, in order to propitiate their statues” ...