Details
AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED WOOD STELE
LATE PERIOD, 26TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 664-525 B.C.
Round-topped with three registers, bordered on three sides by a multi-coloured band, the top with winged sun disc with Nekhbet and Wadjyt as pendant cobras wearing the crowns of upper and Lower Egypt, the hieroglyphs naming Horus of Edfu, a kheker-frieze below, the middle register with two scenes divided by a vertical line of text, depicting the deceased wearing the robe of the living, with arms upraised in adoration before Atum, an altar between them with a pot of water cooled by a lotus flower, a mirroring scene on the right with Re-Harakhty, below seven lines of hieroglyphs, reading: 'Atum, Lord of Heliopolis, Osiris Unnefer, the Great God, Lord of Abydos, Re-Harakhty, Great God, Anubis who is in his embalming place, Lord of the Sacred Land, Geb, Prince of Gods; May he give an invocation of bread, beer, meat, fowl, incense, linen, all things good and pure, for the Osiris, the Divine Father of Amun, [?] of the Estate of Amun, Pa-[kha?]-rw, true of voice, Lord of veneration, son of the Divine Father of Amun, [?] of the Estate of Amun, Pa-kap, true of voice, Lord of veneration, his (sic) mother, the Mistress of the House, the Lady Tja-[?]-Djehuti[?], true of voice, Lady of veneration; the Great God, Lord of the Sky, may he give (followed by another invocation for offerings formula...)’
17 ½ x 12 in. (44.5 x 30.5 cm.)
Provenance
Private collection, UK.
Important Egyptian Antiquities; Christie's, London, 14 April 1970, lot 87, when acquired by Folio Fine Arts Ltd, London.
Private collection, UK, acquired from the above in the 1970s.
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