Funerary Stela

The upper part of the fragmentary Ptolemaic stela is missing, the edges are heavily damaged and the surface is eroded in several places. From the offering scene, depicted in the pictorial field, only the legs of the standing, mummiform deities and the legs of the deceased in front of them can be observed. Based on the traces on the lower part, a richly provided offering table could have stood between the figures of the deceased and the deities. Below the offering scene, a hieroglyphic text is inscribed in four horizontal lines containing an offering formula. The deities invoked in the inscription are the sun-god Re-Harakhty, the creator god Atum, and the funerary god Ptah-Sokar-Osiris. The owner of the stela bears a theophoric name which can be reconstructed as follows due to its missing first part: Iret-Khonsu-riu (“The eye of Khonsu is against them”).