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The inside face is painted with a couple facing to the right seated on openwork chairs with lion feet and offering baskets or containers beneath them. The woman holds a lotus flower in her right hand, her left hand raised in a gesture of adoration. She wears a long diaphanous dress with a sash tied beneath the breasts, a broad collar and a layered wig of long wavy curls surmounted by a lotus bud and perfume cone. The man, whose skin is painted brown, holds a sekhem sceptre and wears a finely pleated kilt and sheer close-fitting shirt beneath a broad collar with a smooth shoulder-length wig bound with a diadem and surmounted by a lotus flower and perfume cone. Five columns of hieroglyphs are painted in the field above the scene, 'For the ka of the wab priest of [the temple] of Amen [Re, king of the Gods]', followed by a personal name [...]menem[...]. The outside of the panel is painted with a horizontal frieze of alternating pairs of djed pillars and knots of Isis, with columns of inscriptions above flanking an offering scene showing the deceased standing before an enthroned deity holding a papyrus sceptre.
Third Intermediate Period. 21st Dynasty, 1069-945 BC |
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