Painted wooden stela of Neswy with his Ba at the top. Early Ptolemaic Period. 3rd century BC. Probably from Thebes.


Painted wooden stela of Neswy with his Ba at the top. The scenes shown arranged in horizontal bands, from top to bottom, the winged solar disk flanked by the goddesses Nekhbet and Wadket as snakes and Anubis as a jackal; the deceased worshiping the Sun God and other deities in the solar boat; the deceased before Osiris, Isis, Nephthys, Horus, Hathor, Anubis and Wenawet. Early Ptolemaic Period. 3rd century BC. Probably from Thebes. British Museum. London. United Kingdom.


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