Shout “the shade” is one of the components of the human being according to the belief of the former Egyptians. This element could not be dissociated of the body and once left at the day the momifié body put at the tomb.

One can see of it a representation in the tomb of Irynefer with Deir el-Médineh. The shade is represented naked, in the attitude of walk, outgoing of the tomb in front of which the Bâ of Irynefer, ready to fly away, is represented emerging from a world of darkness, illustrated by a black disc. It acts there, of a single representation in its kind which illustrates the passages of the chapters of the Livre of Dead the or Livre of the exit at the Day, last stage in the process postmortem which precedes the judgment by late in front of the court by the gods chaired by Osiris.

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