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Pilgrimage and mouth opening ceremony

Upper register: double representation of the boat with the mummiform figures of Menna and Henuttawy on board. The one on the right is sailing towards Abydo, Menna and Henuttawy are seated under a canopy, Menna holds a scourge, Henuttawy a lotus flower. The one on the left is the same boat, but on the return journey to Thebes. Lower registers: stages of the ceremony of the Opening of the Mouth of the Dead. All depictions of the priest-Sem have been deliberately erased from the scene.

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