Image code: 30874

Nefertari plays with the senet and worships the god Atum

On the left Nefertari is depicted under a canopic jar made of reeds. The queen is dressed in a long semi-transparent tunic, knotted in the middle by a red ribbon. On her head she wears the Nekhbet headdress, exclusive to royal women and goddesses, consisting of the Nekhbet vulture clutching the shenu symbol of eternity, a golden crown for the great wives of the pharaohs. The queen also wears gold earrings in the shape of a lotus flower, a pearl necklace and bracelets. She wears a pair of sandals. With her right hand she holds the sekhem sceptre and plays with the senet that will allow her spirit to take the form of the ba bird with a human head and come out of the tomb during the day. The ba is depicted above a building and is followed by the kneeling queen in the act of worshipping the Atum in the form of the sign akhet, i.e. the horizon with rising sun supported here by two lions. The rest of the walls are decorated with passages from the Book of the Dead, Chapter 17.

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