Another wall shows a similar scene in a slightly different form: Anubis, the jackal-headed embalmer, attends to the dead Khabekhnet, who is represented here as a mighty fish rather than the usual human mummy, lying on a lion-legged couch. The following words accompany the scene "Anubis, the imy-wt, says: I come and I am your protector of eternity, oh abdw-fish of true lapis lazuli". The four sons of Horus (Imset, a human-headed deity in charge of the liver, Hapi, a baboon-headed deity in charge of the lungs, Duamutef, a jackal-headed deity in charge of the stomach, and Kebechsenef with the head of a falcon in charge of the intestines of the lower body) flank the fish at the head and foot of the bed. The whole scene is framed by a tent at the sides of which Isis and Nepthys kneel on clumps of lilies and papyrus plants. The painting remains unique.

The large "abdw" fish was identified as the Nile perch (Lates niloticus) and explained as a symbol of the deceased awaiting rebirth (Germond,2001,143). Patrick Houlihan admits that the exact meaning of this fish mummy is uncertain, but he thinks that it probably represents the deceased joining with the god Osiris (Houlihan, 1996, 132). Ingrid Gamer-Wallert (Gamer-Wallert,1970,131-132) suggests that the abdw fish is related to the tilapia, a fish that symbolises rebirth in ancient Egyptian art. She argues that the fish in this painting represents the followers of Re and his boat, or even a manifestation of the sun god himself. Could it be that the dead man, believing that his continued existence was assured by the presence of the sun bark and the tilapia and abdw fish, also felt the desire to transform himself into one of these fish, and thus into one of the manifestations of Re? Why Khabekhnet chose the abdw fish in this case, rather than the more common tilapia, we may never know.