One of the ancient symbols of power associated with the Egyptian Kings is the "Ankh," or Key of Life. The two depicted here are in the recently opened National Museum of Egyptian Civilization. They are several thousand years old.
We have had a nice replica hanging in our condo here for several years. Unfortunately, it broke. We tried gluing it back together but we were not satisfied with the results. In 2020 we searched the Khan el Khalili Bazaar high and low looking for a replacement.
We finally found a good match in size and color but without the requisite gold trim. Linda brought along a bottle of paint this year but needed a small brush to apply it. A trip to a local paint store did not yield anything approaching the right size. A later trip to a book store turned up the perfect artist's brush.
With painstaking care, Linda applied gold trim to the Ankh.
The resulting product is a perfect replacement
and now hangs proudly on our kitchen archway.
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