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Nemulator is a project that aims to visualize "nemes," or different fragments of states of mind.
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They wore peacock kilts, collars and bracelets of gold, and flaring gold nemes headdresses.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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They wore peacock kilts, collars and bracelets of gold, and flaring gold nemes headdresses.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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Intelligent and well educated people go on and on discussing anti-Armenianism, hurling the nemes back and forth, yet they never tell us what they mean by the term.
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Pharaoh wore the nemes crown and carried the sceptre, but behind the pomp and the regalia, he was still a little old man with a pot-belly and a sad face.
River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993
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She wore the light nemes crown and the golden head of the cobra on her brow.
River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993
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This morning he wore the light nemes crown of starched and folded linen, secured around his forehead with the gold band of the uraeus.
River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993
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* His apparel (?) is in the Great House, * the double crown, the _nemes_ bandlet, and the helmet.
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The human-headed monsters, wearing the _claft_ or _nemes_, images of Egyptian Pharaohs, were obviously modelled in imitation of ancient originals.
Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888
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This large sandstone statue of the pharaoh Amenhotep IV shows him with a double-crown, on top of his "nemes" royal headdress.
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