This fragment from the wall of a tomb portrays one of the most important moments in Egyptian funeral rites: the symbolic restoration of the senses before the mummy is placed inside the grave.

A priest, wearing a wavy wig and a pleated sleeved mantle, knotted at the waist, is supporting a mummy whose head is covered by a wig and a funerary mask with a false beard. The cones symbolise the anointing of their heads with a perfumed balm. This scene portrays the 'opening of the mouth', a ceremony intended to give the deceased their main senses back, which would be essential to their life in the aferlife: the priest would lightly touch the eyes, nose, mouth, and ears of the mummy, which was held upright before the entrance to the funerary chapel, all the while reciting ritual texts. 

The figures' facial features and the way the priest's robe and wig are depicted are typical of the style adopted at the end of the Ramesside period. The sculpture has retained its beautiful polychromy, most notably the red ochre of the skin tones and textiles, and the blue used for the wigs.