Guide for the afterlife for the principal Sesech

Guide to the afterworld made for Sesech, a property administrator of the goddess Mut, with annotated symbolic illustrations of the dangers encountered in the realm of the dead. The individual scenes, from right to left, represent:

a) The deceased, identified as a priest by his shaved head, making an offering to Osiris, Lord of the Afterlife. Isis and Nephthys stand behind Osiris.
b) The aged sun god, represented by the ram’s head, returning from the day’s journey to the lap of the sky goddess Nut.
c) Isis and Nephthys, sister-wife and sister, mourning the dead Osiris, and hoping for his resurrection.
d) Four figures guarding the body and internal organs of the deceased.
e) The deceased, in his role as a public official, making an offering to the god Amun, husband of the goddess Mut, shown here in the form of a ram.
f) The entrance to a grave in the ‘beautiful west’, the Egyptian realm of the dead.