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Relief with Netherworld Deities

Among the most prominent changes in the funerary art of the post-Amarna Period New Kingdom was an increase in religious and otherworldly scenes in tomb decoration and a decline in scenes of the tomb owner's real or ideal life. Thus this post-Amarna New Kingdom relief from the tomb of Yepu, a Royal Scribe and Overseer of the Treasury, depicts knife-wielding genies protecting gateways on the way to the netherworld realm of Osiris. These scenes are vignettes for the relief's texts, which are parts of a spell from the Book of the Dead invoking safe passage for the deceased.

Medium: Limestone
Place Made: Egypt
Dates: ca. 1332-1250 B.C.E.
Dynasty: late XVIII Dynasty-early XIX Dynasty
Period: New Kingdom
Dimensions: 10 3/4 x 24 x 2 5/8 in. (27.3 x 61 x 6.7 cm)
Collections: Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Middle Eastern Art
Museum Location: This item is not on view
Accession Number: 37.1487E
Credit Line: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
Image: Overall, 37.1487E_PS2.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2006

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