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Nefertari worshipping in front of Osiris

Nefertari with her arms raised in adoration of Osiris. The queen is dressed in a long semi-transparent tunic, knotted in the middle by a red ribbon. On her head is 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. Osiris is seated inside a chapel decorated with a frieze of urei with solar discs above his head. The god clutches the insignia of power. His skin is green to recall resurrection and vegetation. He wears a white tunic with a red and ochre band and a broad collar at the collar. On his head is an Atef crown with a vegetal bundle in the centre. In front of him on a stand the four sons of Horus. Behind him the jackal-headed god Anubis holds a sceptre was and an ankh

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