EditorialDetail from the inner coffin of priest Pai-es-Tenef. The Ba soul-bird hovers above the defunct in order to revive him for afterlife. -Painted wood (about 600 BCE), Late Period, Egypt. Inv. 53.
EditorialThree Osiris-figures. The mummified penis of the defunct was kept in a small opening in the base. Sometimes the opening was used to store a papyrus role with the Book of the Dead. Right: Ba, the soul-bird. -Painted wood (around 600 BCE), Egypt. -Inv. 8...