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No Negative number Nile 1947 [P-3, 9]. Typed index card reads, "T 6 Egy. Egypt. Abu Simbel. Column of Rameses II as the god Osiris in the hypostyle hall. XIX Dyn. 5/1947. EE. neg.no. Nile 1947 P-3, 9.

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