Funerary bead-net

Funerary bead-net for laying over a mummy, made of numerous faience tube and round beads forming a mesh, edged with heavy beaded trim made of the same material that has a strip of fringe-like pendants along the bottom.
A winged scarab made of faience and painted red, yellow and green was placed on the net, at chest height, and four mummiform amulets, also of faience, were laid in the centre. These amulets represent the four sons of Horus, arranged in pairs: man-headed Imsety, baboon-headed Hapy, falcon-headed Qebehsenuef, and jackal-headed Duamutef. The four amulets were intended to protect the deceased in the afterlife.
This piece was in the collection of Eduardo Toda i Güell, who acquired it while serving as vice-consul of Spain in Cairo from 1884 to 1886 and sold it to the Spanish government in 1887, when it was delivered to the museum.