The ceiling
The soffit/ceiling is
original: instead of the usual geometric pattern, it is decorated with
flying birds, with their wings expanded, on a yellow background. The
birds are light blue, with traces of white and red legs. The entry of
the tombs, not being tightly closed, made it possible that the theme was
about a simple transposition of the reality, but the idea of a link
with the Ba-bird ("the soul" of the deceased) leaving the tomb to go out
into the day, was certainly not displeasing to Khonsu, who made two of
these unusual ceiling images, containing flying birds, in his tomb. The
panel is surrounded by a chequered border of blue, red, blue and green
squares.
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