Image code: 30849

Nefertari with sekhem shield and stack of offerings

The detail is part of a scene composed of two mirror images but different ones separated in the middle by a fan. In both scenes Nefertari faces a god seated on a throne. The queen is dressed in a long, semi-transparent tunic, knotted in the middle by a red ribbon. On her head she wears the Nekhbet headdress, exclusive to royal women and goddesses, consisting of the Nekhbet vulture clutching the shenu symbol of eternity, a golden crown for the great wives of the pharaohs and surmounted by two long golden feathers in the middle of which is a small solar disc. The queen holds the sceptre sekhem in her right hand, a symbol of power and authority. The queen and the god are separated by a pile of offerings on top of which are jars from which smoke comes out. The scene on the left shows mummiform Osiris seated on a throne. In the scene on the right is Atum.

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