Canopic box
Ptolemaic period (305-30 BC).
Stuccoed and painted wood
Height: 50 cm
Inv.: MEB E-834
Richly decorated with religious scenes and motifs, including various amulets (wedjat-eyes, djed pillar, Isis knot, ankh sign of life, and was-sceptre). There is also a ‘false door’ stela, a scene with the owner of the box before the four sons of Horus, and another with the goddesses Isis and Nephthys flanking the fetish of Abydos, symbol of the god Osiris.