Procession of Deities, Tomb of Seti I

This wall painting features three registers of standing figures against a golden-yellow background, framed by columns of hieroglyphic text. In the upper and lower registers, figures with dark skin and white kilts stand in profile, oriented to the right. The middle register contains figures wearing elaborate pectorals and colored kilts; one figure in this register appears ghosted or eroded, showing the underlying plaster. The painting maintains the traditional Egyptian canon of proportions, with figures depicted in strict profile with frontal torsos.

Located in the tomb of Seti I (KV17) in the Valley of the Kings, this imagery illustrates the 'Book of Gates', an ancient Egyptian funerary text detailing the passage of the soul through the underworld. It reflects the complex theological landscape of the New Kingdom, where the king's journey into the afterlife was ritually codified through symbolic geography.