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Princess Nofret (UAR Era)

This brown definitive issue displays the distinctive portrait of Princess Nofret, a high-status noblewoman from the Old Kingdom of Egypt (4th Dynasty, c. 2600 BC). The engraving is an exact rendering of the head of the famous painted limestone statue of Nofret, discovered in 1871 alongside her husband, Prince Rahotep, inside their mastaba tomb at Meidum. She is depicted wearing her signature heavy wig held in place by an ornate floral diadem, alongside a wide usekh collar necklace. Bearing the country name of the United Arab Republic (UAR) and applied with the green, bilingual overprint "PALESTINE / فلسطين", this stamp was circulated in the Gaza Strip to assert state authority and administrative continuity by channeling one of antiquity's most celebrated artifacts.