Before you read the information under the picture of this sculpture of the god Ptah-Sokar, roll your cursor over the photograph to magnify the image. Look closely at the artifact and consider these questions:

• What colors of paint can you discern?
• What tools and materials do you think the artist could have used to make this figure?
• Do you see signs of its age? Where?
• Can you decipher any of the hieroglyphs (writing)? Use this hieroglyph key to translate the hieroglyphs.