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Lot Essay
The figure is depicted wearing a long sheaf dress with a beaded broad collar, broad armlets and bracelets. She stands with her legs parallel and her arms at her sides. Her long, heavy wig, which envelops her shoulders, is composed of elaborate plates fronted by a smooth band across the forehead that curves down at the sides, overlapping the braids and terminating in oval tassels. A central band rises up over the crown of her head. The ensemble is further bound in a broad horizontal band punctuated by a dotted pattern.
The upper surface of the wood base has six horizontal lines of hieroglyphs in shallow sunk relief reading: “A Royal Offering Formula (to) Ptah-Sokar-Osiris, Lord of Busiris, the Great God, Lord of Abydos, that he may give invocation-offerings of bread and beer, oxen and fowl, alabaster vessels and garments, incense and oil, and every beautiful, pure thing, that which heaven gives, that which the earth creates, and that which the Inundation brings, on which a god lives, for the Ka of the Lady of the House Satipy, born of Henut, Justified, beloved of Hathor Lady of Atfih.”
The upper surface of the wood base has six horizontal lines of hieroglyphs in shallow sunk relief reading: “A Royal Offering Formula (to) Ptah-Sokar-Osiris, Lord of Busiris, the Great God, Lord of Abydos, that he may give invocation-offerings of bread and beer, oxen and fowl, alabaster vessels and garments, incense and oil, and every beautiful, pure thing, that which heaven gives, that which the earth creates, and that which the Inundation brings, on which a god lives, for the Ka of the Lady of the House Satipy, born of Henut, Justified, beloved of Hathor Lady of Atfih.”