Image code: 30220

Ay and the royal ka before Nut and Hathor

From the right. The goddess Nut is depicted in front of Ay and the royal ka. She wears a white dress with thin straps that leave her breasts exposed and a uraeus on her forehead. The goddess performs the 'nyny' gesture by offering two hieroglyphs indicating water. It is a ritual of welcome and purification. In front of the goddess is the intentionally damaged figure of the pharaoh. Behind him is the royal ka of Ay. It wears the serekh on its head, a kind of enclosure representing the façade of a palace. On the inside was inscribed the pharaoh's name Horus. The emblem is surrounded by the two arms of the ka sign and surmounted by a falcon with a white Upper Egyptian crown. An uraeus is placed in front of the bird of prey. The ka holds a staff whose pommel ends in a pharaoh's head. The ka was believed to be the life essence of a person. Behind the ka is the goddess Hathor taking the pharaoh by the hand, whose figure has all but disappeared.

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