Amduat: the kingdom of Sokar
Amduat. Fifth hour. Upper register. A rounded, sand-filled chamber has a sign at the top indicating 'darkness', symbolising the underworld of Sokar. On each side is a hawk perched. At the bottom emerges a beetle proceeding towards the lower register. Middle register. The ground rises to form a mound from which a woman's head emerges. On the left and right seven deities ferry Ra's boat. Lower register. The land of Sokar, immediately below the mound of earth, is in the shape of an island in the middle of the river Duat, and lies on the bodies of two sphinxes with human heads peeking out from the sides of the oval. Inside the oval is a snake with three snake heads at one end and a human head at the other end. Above it a god with a hawk's head between two wings. Images and texts are executed in cursive script imitating funerary papyri.
