Image code: 28825

Niche, offering bearers and scene of weighing of soul

Right: a niche is framed by a painted door. At the top of the door there is a decoration in which an hatoric head and tied papyrus flowers are flanked by djed pillars. Inside the niche: the lower part of a sculpted group representing the tomb’s owners (Menna and his wife) is still in place. At the left of the niche: decoration on two registers. On both registers there is an offering bearer. The men move towards the niche carrying fruit and lotus and papyrus flowers. Left wall, upper register: scene of the weighing of the soul of the dead. Osiris is seated on a throne. He wears the atef crown and holds the crook and the flail. In front of him there is a scale. To the ceremony assist Horus and Thoth. Lower register: an offering bearer puts food offerings on an altar.

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