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Detail of the funerary stele of a singer in the temple of Amon. In the upper panel the decased stands before Osiris, Judge of the dead. On the lower panel Hathor as the cow-headed lady of the sycamore gives the bread and water of life to the deceased and her soul, symbolised by her soul-bird or Ba. From the Florence Archaeological Museum.