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Cemetery of Deir el-Medina - Tomb of Nefrabet
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To the north of No. 291, close behind the Temple of Deir el-Medina, is No. 5, the Tomb of Nefrabet, which is also of the Ramessid period.
A flight of steps leads into a vaulted chamber, on the walls of which the dead man and his relatives are depicted worshiping the Hathor cow emerging from the hill (right) and the Horus falcon (left). Another flight of steps descends to a second chamber decorated with religious scenes: Horus and Thoth pouring the purifying water over the dead man; Amenoph is I praying to the snake- headed goddess of the dead Meresger and to Hathor; the sun, borne by two lions. On the rear wall, above the mouth of the shaft, are depicted the mummies of the dead man and his wife.
A flight of steps leads into a vaulted chamber, on the walls of which the dead man and his relatives are depicted worshiping the Hathor cow emerging from the hill (right) and the Horus falcon (left). Another flight of steps descends to a second chamber decorated with religious scenes: Horus and Thoth pouring the purifying water over the dead man; Amenoph is I praying to the snake- headed goddess of the dead Meresger and to Hathor; the sun, borne by two lions. On the rear wall, above the mouth of the shaft, are depicted the mummies of the dead man and his wife.
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