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A GESSO-PAINTED AND GILDED WOODEN STELE OF TJAPEN
CIRCA 650 B.C., PROBABLY FROM THEBES
With scene of winged sun-disc and cobras wearing red and white crown respectively with Behdet (Edfu) written on either side and inscription "may he give all offerings" between. Below Kheker-frieze and figure of the deceased lady led by ibis-headed Thoth into the presence of Osiris, Isis, and mummified deity; the latter, Tjapen and Thoth, all wearing unguent cones on their heads. Inscription on the right reads "Recitation by Osiris, Lord of Rostau, that he might give ... to Tjapen". Seven lines of text below read "Recitation by Osiris, Foremost of the Westerners, great god, Lord of Abydos, and Ptah-Sokar-Osiris who dwells in the Kingdom of the Dead, Re-Harakhty, the great god, Lord of Heaven among the gods, Atum, Lord of the Two Lands at Heliopolis, Geb, Heir of the gods, Anubis, Lord of the Necropolis, Osiris of Rostau, Osiris, Lord of Busiris, Osiris-Unnufer, Ruler of Eternity, that they might grant a Table of Offerings with bread and beer, thousands of meat, thousands of fowl, thousands of all offerings, thousands of provisions, thousands of incense, thousands of cloth, thousands of all good and pure things, and thousands of all good and sweet things, on which a god lives, who is in the West of Thebes, for the Osirid Tjapen daughter of Neskhonsu, justified, whose mother is Tjaiuint. Osiris, may he give a prt-hrw of bread, beer, oxen and fowl and every kind of offerings and provisions", mounted in glazed wooden case
17½ x 10½ in. (44.5 cm. x 26.6 cm.)
