Limestone anthropoid coffin lid of Padihorhephep. Ptolemaic Period, about 200 BC. Beneath the broad collar hangs a pectoral containing seated figures of Osiris, Isis and Horus. The Four Sons of Horus and other funerary deities flank the central text which names the deities represented and contains a formula concerning the deceased's acceptance in the Other World after death.


Limestone anthropoid coffin lid of Padihorhephep. Ptolemaic Period, about 200 BC. Beneath the broad collar hangs a pectoral containing seated figures of Osiris, Isis and Horus. The Four Sons of Horus and other funerary deities flank the central text which names the deities represented and contains a formula concerning the deceased's acceptance in the Other World after death.


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