Vignette on Khonsu's inner coffin lid

A seated male figure in a white pleated kilt raises both hands toward a column of hieroglyphs on a gold-yellow ground. Painted birds, a sun disk, an eye sign and rows of red and black signs fill the surrounding panels, in the manner of Ramesside funerary painting on wood.

Look closer: A small bird with a long beak perches at the lower left edge of the panel.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Medium

Gessoed and painted wood

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

1540 × 1232 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Funds from various donors, 1886