Tefnut Enthroned (Detail from the Book of the Dead)

The figure is a human-bodied deity with the head of a lioness, seated in profile on a dark-colored chair. She wears a solar disk—a large, reddish-brown circle—atop her head. Her body is covered in a textured, scale-like pattern, and she holds a tall, narrow scepter in both hands. Hieroglyphic text appears vertically behind her head, and a small avian figure is visible in the upper left corner.

Tefnut is the ancient Egyptian goddess of moisture and rain, representing the principle of orderly change, and appears in the funerary contexts of the 'Book of the Dead' as part of the divine pantheon overseeing the afterlife journey.