Judicial Flogging in Egyptian Painting
Credits
John Gardner Wilkinson, Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians… Illustrated by Drawings, etc., vol. 2 (London: John Murray, 1837), fig. 87, p. 41.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 1.
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