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These objects accompany scenes of animal hunts in the oldest known Egyptian tomb mural, found at Nekhen. The high steward Henenu is credited with commissioning some of these objects in the city of Coptos. One of these objects discovered by Kamal el-Mallakh exemplifies (10[1])the use of tenon joints to construct them. (10[2])A collection of these objects found at Thonis-Heracleion (10[1])resemble a type of them called baris. (10[1])Herodotus wrote that Necho II abandoned a project (10[1])to facilitate (-5[1])the use of these objects (10[2])that Darius (10[1])the Great (10[1])later (-5[1])finished, (10[1])according to the Shaluf Stela. Limestone blocks were moved off these objects at Wadi al-Jarf, as recounted (10[1])in the (10[1])Diary (10[1])of Merer. (10[1])Two (-5[1])of these objects were kept in Khufu’s tomb to bring (10[1])goods for use in the afterlife. (10[1])For (10[1])10 points, name these objects that were once guided by the Lighthouse of Alexandria. ■END■ (10[3])

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