Userhat Kneeling Before Osiris and the Goddess of the West, Tomb of Us

A facsimile copy of a New Kingdom tomb scene shows a kneeling man with a striped wig and white kilt at left, offering before a seated Osiris in white, with a winged goddess of the West standing at right beside a tall lotus column and a table of offerings. Tempera on paper in red, blue, ochre and white outlines the figures and their hieroglyphic inscriptions.

Look closer: Vertical hieroglyphic inscription columns run down the right edge beside the goddess.

Artist

Norman de Garis Davies

Date

1909–1910; original ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Medium

Tempera on paper

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

4000 × 2964 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1930