Image code: 30682

Pilgrimage and mouth opening ceremony

Upper register: outward and return pilgrimage to Abydos. Menna and Henuttawy in mummiform appearance make their way to the city sacred to Osiris by sailing down the Nile. Middle register: various phases of the Opening of the Mouth ritual performed by the priest Sem (whose images have been erased) on the mummy of the deceased. Lower register: a theory of offertory bearers, men and women. They carry numerous vases, fruit, papyrus stalks, lotus flowers and a calf (right).

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