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Scribes and Foreigners
Scribes and Foreigners

Scribes lean forward eagerly, using their writing equipment to record the gifts to Ay and Tiy. The group behind them may be Egyptian military officers.
 
Relief detail

Still further back stands a foreign delegation from Egypt's farflung empire, with distinctive hairstyles and long wrapped garments. This relief in the exhibition shows the heads of several foreigners, including a Libyan with the same double feather headdress seen above.