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Lot Essay
PUBLISHED:
S. Cauville, 'Une stèle de Nag El-Hassaia' in Journal of Egyptology, Cairo/Paris, 1982-83, pp. 22-27.
This stele is engraved at the top with the typical winged sun disc with two uraei, surmounting Isis and her sister Nephthys, standing behind an enthroned Osiris and the falcon-headed god Ra-Horakhty. The deities are in front of an offering table laden with food and an over-sized lotus flower. The deceased would have been depicted on the other side and is now missing. Below the scene is a five lines hieroglyphic inscription, also incomplete, reading '[Grave formula to Osiris] which governs the West, the Great God, Lord of Abydos, that he may give an invocation offering of bread, beer, meat, poultry, all things good and [pure], soft and pleasant, and that he may give a great burial in the beautiful Western Desert of Behedet (Edfu), the servant of Horus, servant of the Golden One, prophet of Osiris who presides over the Divine Chapel, the prophet of Isis-Scorpion [who resides in Behedet, the scribe] of the nome, third phyle, scribe of the temple of Horus Behedety, fourth phyle, the prophet of Isis [of Menset], prophet of Horus-Shu, Pasheriiset, son of the holder of the same titles Nakhthor, born of the Lady Taperet'.
Two other stelai are known from family members of Pasheriiset: one in Moscow for his son, who has the same name as his grandfather, Nakhthor, and another for his sister, Taher. Considering the quality of the hieroglyphs, together with the oversized lotus flower, Cauville suggests this stele should be dated to the 6th Century B.C.
S. Cauville, 'Une stèle de Nag El-Hassaia' in Journal of Egyptology, Cairo/Paris, 1982-83, pp. 22-27.
This stele is engraved at the top with the typical winged sun disc with two uraei, surmounting Isis and her sister Nephthys, standing behind an enthroned Osiris and the falcon-headed god Ra-Horakhty. The deities are in front of an offering table laden with food and an over-sized lotus flower. The deceased would have been depicted on the other side and is now missing. Below the scene is a five lines hieroglyphic inscription, also incomplete, reading '[Grave formula to Osiris] which governs the West, the Great God, Lord of Abydos, that he may give an invocation offering of bread, beer, meat, poultry, all things good and [pure], soft and pleasant, and that he may give a great burial in the beautiful Western Desert of Behedet (Edfu), the servant of Horus, servant of the Golden One, prophet of Osiris who presides over the Divine Chapel, the prophet of Isis-Scorpion [who resides in Behedet, the scribe] of the nome, third phyle, scribe of the temple of Horus Behedety, fourth phyle, the prophet of Isis [of Menset], prophet of Horus-Shu, Pasheriiset, son of the holder of the same titles Nakhthor, born of the Lady Taperet'.
Two other stelai are known from family members of Pasheriiset: one in Moscow for his son, who has the same name as his grandfather, Nakhthor, and another for his sister, Taher. Considering the quality of the hieroglyphs, together with the oversized lotus flower, Cauville suggests this stele should be dated to the 6th Century B.C.