Mummy board made for a woman, Amon-Re singer, Mut singer Nesyperunub, usurped by an unknown man.
Anthropoid mummy board decorated in polychrome on a yellow background.
The lid depicts the deceased with arms crossed at the breast and wearing a tripartite wig with a fillet around the temples; ear-rings formerly present have been removed, leaving visible scarring. Breasts with nipples appear directly below the lappets of the wig, with a pectoral, bearing a solar scarab between squatting solar human-headed figures, below and between them. A broad collar extends from the shoulders to below the waist, with a pair of hands protruding through it. The hands were originally depicted with fingers outstretched, but the latter have been cut off, to convert the hands into fists, but with the resultant scarring left visible on the surface of the collar.
A winged sun-disk is painted directly below the collar, with a scarab underneath it, flanked by cobras atop tjet-signs and seated images of Osiris, with various auxiliary hieroglyphic groups. Below this register is the kneeling figure of a solar goddess, looking left, with wings outstretched and above them a chequer pattern. Below her is a solar scarab, flanked by cobras atop combined djed-/tjet-signs and seated images of Osiris, with various auxiliary hieroglyphic groups. Below, a column of text stretches to the feet, flanked by a series of lateral registers, as follows:
RL.I Seated Osiris in shrine.
RL.II Alternating djed- and tjet-signs
R.III Human-headed anthropoid figure in front of Anubis-fetish. L.III Feather-headed anthropoid figure in front of Anubis-fetish.
RL.IV Alternating djed- and tjet-signs
RL.V Shrine containing vertical pair of wadjet-eyes, separated by h-signs.
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