A group of gesso-painted polychrome cartonnage fragments, showing depictions from the Book of the Dead, including the Four Sons of Horus, a kneeling protective goddess with wings and wearing the sun disc, Anubis performing rites over the mummy which lies on a lion-shaped funerary bed flanked by the mourners Isis and Nephthys, a ba (soul) bird giving life to the deceased presided over by Anubis, journey through the Underworld, Ptolemaic, circa 4th-1st Century B.C.(a lot)

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A group of gesso-painted polychrome cartonnage fragments, showing depictions from the Book of the Dead, including the Four Sons of Horus, a kneeling protective goddess with wings and wearing the sun disc, Anubis performing rites over the mummy which lies on a lion-shaped funerary bed flanked by the mourners Isis and Nephthys, a ba (soul) bird giving life to the deceased presided over by Anubis, journey through the Underworld, Ptolemaic, circa 4th-1st Century B.C.(a lot)

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