The image on this coffin canopy in Walton Hall of Ancient Egypt represents the ba, which was a spirit-like quality Egyptians believed all people possessed.
The ba is most often depicted as a human-headed bird. A person’s ba was considered important in the afterlife, where it could visit the world of the living during the day and return to the world of the deceased at night.
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