"The two figures on this relief represent districts or estates providing offerings for the cult of the deceased. Each carries a basket of food and beverages, along with a duck, intended as food for the tomb owner's spiritual life force, or ka. Originally, they would have been part of a procession of such estates in the mastaba of an official; his name has not survived. The large hieroglyphs in front of each figure identify the estate. The female is Nebutet and the male Senen" (From info card)
Photos ©Joan Ann Lansberry, 2014