We are so fortunate to have Lepsius' drawings, for some damage has occurred since the mid 19th century, when he made those drawings:
Photo courtesy William Petty
In the boat is Horus the Elder, Set, Nephthys, and Isis, another Set appears between two falcon gods, then Anubis...
In this crop of a photo by "KairoInfo4u", we can see the four deities in the boat, with their naming hieroglyphs above.
I spied him in the upper corner of this photo, and rotated him around, and yes, his name shows, also.
Photo courtesy William Petty
This is from the same photo from which the detail above this one has been cropped.
It is on the wall below the astronomical ceiling, and so far I haven't found a clarifying sketch by Lepsius.
There is, however a similar scene at Amenhotep III's tomb
Drawing from Valley of the Kings, Grave 17, credit: Lepsius
(Tomb KV17 is the tomb of Pharaoh Seti I of the Nineteenth Dynasty.)
From the museum info cards regarding a piece at the Brooklyn museum Wilkinson explains that Taweret was also "called the concubine of Set" in his _Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt_, page 185. I think there is also significance to the crocodile riding her back. As Wilkinson explains in his _Reading Egyptian Art_, the crocodile is associated with Set, with lust and possibly a sort of 'will to power'. (It could likely be Set riding her!) Of course, they changed the mythology somewhat as the view of Set dimmed.
Also, Set is in the heavens as the 'constellation of the Thigh', as TeVelde explains:
"And after he had cut out his fore-leg he threw it into the sky. Spirits guard it there: The Great Bear of the northern sky. The great Hippopotamus goddess keeps hold of it, so that it can no longer sail in the midst
of the gods." 2)
"In the stars of the Great Bear the Egyptians saw an adze or a fore-leg..."
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