This wooden fragment from an anthropoid coffin shows scenes from the Book of the Dead. It is likely from Thebes, and dating from the Twenty-first Dynasty. There is a band of text reciting the titles of Osiris at the top. The central scene below shows Isis and Nephthys raising their hands in adoration before the symbol of the god Nefertum. On the left are the two figures of Osiris between the Lake of Fire in which the deceased will be purified. On the right the deceased is shown shaking a sistrum as an act of adoration on being introduced by Isis to the presence of the enthroned Horus. On the reverse in the top register, are two standing deities. Below them are stars, and in the bottom register a seated deity with a cobra.

Anonymous. 1996. The face of Egypt: Swansea Festival exhibition: 5 October 1996–5 January 1997. Swansea: Glynn Vivian Art Gallery. [Cat. 127]