Fragment of the Book of the Amduat

This is a horizontal papyrus fragment featuring black and red ink line drawings organized into two registers. The upper register shows a feline creature, avian-headed deities, and a seated baboon-like figure, followed by a boat carrying a central figure. To the right, a vertical column of hieroglyphs separates the imagery from a block of cursive hieratic text. The lower register depicts a procession of figures with arms raised in adoration, facing a figure standing within an oval or shrine-like enclosure. The papyrus shows visible fiber texture, signs of aging, and two prominent lacunae (holes) in the right-hand text section.

This fragment pertains to the Amduat, an important funerary text of the New Kingdom and later periods, detailing the nocturnal journey of the sun god Ra through the twelve regions of the underworld. The imagery specifically reflects the symbolic geography of the afterlife as codified in Egyptian mortuary literature.