EditorialThe dead Sennedjem and his wife are clad in white linen wearing cones of funeral ointment on their heads. They receive water for cleansing, bread, and lotus flowers from Isis, who appears in the holy sycamore tree. Workmen's Tombs (13th BCE), Deir el-M...
EditorialTop of a Leafless Sycamore Tree, William Henry Fox Talbot (English, 1800 - 1877), England, February 13, 1843, Salted paper print, 15.4 ? 15.4 cm (6 1/16 ? 6 1/16 in.).
EditorialThe dead Sennedjem and his wife are clad in white linen wearing cones of funeral ointment on their heads. They receive water for cleansing, bread, and lotus flowers from Isis, who appears in the holy sycamore tree. Workmen's Tombs (13th BCE), Deir el-M...
EditorialThe Goddess of the sycamore tree offers water to the dead Kamose who offers to Osiris, Horus, Isis, and Hathor. Upper register of Kamose's stele. Limestone (around 1200 BCE), 20th Dynasty, New Kingdom, Egypt. Inv. 7291.