Cartonnage of Kharushere
Third Intermediate Period
Within Kharushere's nest of coffins was this elaborately decorated cartonnage container. As he does on his innermost coffin, Kharushere here wears a striated tripartite wig topped by a fillet and a scarab beetle representing the god Khepri. On his chest is a shrine-shaped pectoral with a figure of the goddess Maat inside, below which a composite ram-headed avian deity spreads its wings. Other elements covering the body include a winged falcon; shrines containing Horus, Sokar, and the four Sons of Horus; a falcon perched atop an Abydos fetish, symbol of Osiris; and, over the legs, goddesses and demons with crossing wings.
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