Bed of the mummiform sarcophagus of Djedhorefankh
He was a priest. Yellow background; the upper part is painted in imitation of a curtain, like the ceilings of Theban tombs, and the lunette below shows the image of the solar boat, with the prow and stern ending in papyrus flowers, on which is the image of the solar disc, between two urai, rising from the horizon; in the centre of the register is the personification of the tit amulet (the Isiac knot): it has a female head and raises its arms upwards to support the watercourse on which the boat sails; on either side of the tit amulet two jackals are crouched on a shrine; the underlying register has two cartouches surmounted by a solar disc, in one there is the sequence of signs men (stable) kheper (appear) ra (the god ra), between the two cartouches there is a khaker decorative element from which two cobras with the tit amulet around their necks rise; at either end of the register, in front of baskets full of offerings, are two birds with female heads bringing their hands to their faces in a typical gesture of mourning; the register below is divided into two almost identical scenes on the left a priestess offers incense and papyrus to Ptah, on the right a priest named Djedkhonsu appears; the next scene is in a tent: above a bed is spread the mummy of the deceased, which the jackal god Anubis is finishing preparing; the four canopic jars, with lids reproducing the heads of the sons of Horus, are under the bed; the largest scene is surmounted by a frieze of urei with a solar disc on their heads; there is the engorged mummy in front of which is a semic priest who, identified by the panther skin covering his white robe, fumigates with incense (the priest's task was to revive the mummy during the ceremony of the opening of the mouth); between the two figures is an offering table surmounted by a lotus flower, another lotus flower is behind a kneeling woman who, as a sign of grief, tears her hair; the side walls of the chest have a cartouche at the top flanked by two jackals lying above two shrines and protected by udjat eyes; below, a priest giving a bouquet of flowers and two cups to a figure on a throne holding symbols of royal power; behind the throne is Anubu; in the last register are the four sons of Horus represented as mummiform genii, between them some lotus flowers appear to rise from the ground.
