The sledges upon which mummies were dragged to the sepulchre were also furnished with canopies, but in a totally different style.

The sledge canopy is a panelled shrine, like those which I discovered in 1886, in the tomb of Sennetmu at Kurnet Murraee.

If light was admitted, it came through a square opening, showing the head of the mummy within.

Wilkinson gives an illustration of a sledge canopy of this kind, from the wall paintings of a Theban tomb (fig.

267).
The panels were always made to slide.