Gatekeepers from the Book of the Dead
Guardians of the doors in Chapter 144 of the Book of the Dead. The door is followed by three figures identified as the keeper, the guardian and the messenger. The first has a ram's head, red-brown skin and holds a branch in his right hand and a knife in his left hand. He wears a green dress with a white and gold skirt. The image shows the second guardian, a female figure with an animal's head. She wears a red dress and holds an ankh in her right hand and a knife in her left. The last, also a female character, has a human head and dresses as usual, clutching an ankh in both hands.
