Vignette from the Book of the Dead (Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst)

This fragment of an ancient Egyptian papyrus features a line-drawing in dark ink on a light, fibrous, aged papyrus surface. On the left, a figure in a linen kilt stands in a simple boat, holding a long pole that extends toward the right, where a deity wearing the Atef crown stands upon a raised platform. Between them is a tall, pointed standard, and behind the deity stands a djed pillar. The Bennu bird (a heron-like deity) faces forward in the boat, while hieroglyphic text is inscribed above and below the scene.

This scene represents the deceased's transition into the afterlife and their encounter with Osiris or a related funerary deity. It derives from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, a funerary text intended to assist the soul's journey through the Duat.