egypt-museum:Funerary Bed with Sides Representing LionessesThis wooden bed is covered with gilded pl
egypt-museum:Funerary Bed with Sides Representing LionessesThis wooden bed is covered with gilded plaster designed to represent two elongated lionesses. The two lionesses represent the goddess Mehit. According to ancient Egyptian beliefs, Mehet was identified with Hathor, Sekhmet, and Isis and helped to cause the Nile flood when she was appeased. The eyes of these animals are inlaid with blue glass paste; the eyelids are colored in black. The central panel is decorated with the Djed and the Ankh signs.From the Tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62), Valley of the Kings, West Thebes. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 62011 -- source link