Nephthys
Late Period (715-332 BC)
Painted wood
Height: 32 cm
Inv.: MEB E-241
Nephthys is the wife and sister of the god Set. She helped her sister Isis recover the fragments of her late husband Osiris' body and prepare his mummy. She often appears in funerary contexts such as sarcophagi and viscera containers, associated with one of the four sons of Horus.