Sarcophagus panel
The interior in covered in plaster, painted with three mummified divinities, facing the left-hand side, all wearing flowery necklaces; the middle divinity has a hawks head and the others have human heads with a long black beard; there are two incense burners (?) on the floor, near the divinities and other utensil can be found next to the hawk divinity; there is a row of divine serpents on the top part, which are crowned with solar discs. The upper section depicts the opened wing of Nekhbet, the vulture goddess (representing the domain over Higher and Lower Egypt) and a divinity on the right hand-side, kneeling and holding an ankh (symbol of life). The external part is decorated with three funerary scenes; the central scene represents a goddess offering a libation vase to a sitting god, maybe Osiris, crowned with a solar disc; alternating with divine serpents and ostrich feather (?).
21st- 22nd Dynasty, 1075-716 BC
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