Vignette from the Book of the Dead of Nesitanebtashru , From the burial of Nesitanebtashru, Deir el-Bahari, Thebes 21st Dynasty, around 1025 BC
Shu supporting Nut: the separation of the earth from heaven by the god of the air.
This vignette is part of the Greenfield papyrus, the Book of the Dead of the priestess Nesitanebtashru, daughter of High Priest Pinudjem I. It is named after Mrs Edith Greenfield, the donor of the papyrus to the British Museum, whose husband acquired it in Egypt in 1880.