Description:
On the far left is part of a figure, probably of a god or goddess, with one hand holding the looped stem of a papyrus plant, which curves down to the right to complete a shape that other examples suggest is a funerary boat. Next comes the winged standing figure of Nephthys, identified by the name she wears on her head, facing a hawk-headed god with a solar disk on his head. A down-stretched wing from another figure appears on the far right of the fragment. A uraeus cobra is shown with its tail fancifully looped around the god. Blank labels are provided for the figures; religion, mythology
Label Text:
The hawk-headed deity is likely Re or Re-Horakhty. Although Nephthys and her sister Isis, who is almost certainly the figure for whom part of a wing survives on the far right, typically mourn Osiris, with whom the deceased is identified, sun gods also appear in funerary imagery, thanks to the sun’s daily rebirth. The protective powers of the cobra are displayed succinctly by the way the snake’s tail loops over the god.
Diana Wolfe Larkin, June 2014
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