Funerary Stela

The painted wooden stela was purchased by Ferenc Kiss sometime between 1828 and 1843. The decoration is placed in three registers divided by horizontal lines. The lunette was occupied by the picture of a winged sun disc adorned with uraeus-snakes. Below one can observe the figure of a scarab, the regenerated morning form of the sun god, flanked by two recumbent Anubis-jackals. The central figure of the second register is Osiris sitting on his throne together with his son Horus and his wife Isis standing behind him. The deceased is introduced to the presence of the ruler of the netherworld by Anubis. The lower register contains a hieroglyphic text inscribed in ten horizontal lines, in which a decree – issued by Osiris – can be read.
Based on close parallels, the funerary stela can be dated to the early Ptolemaic Period, i.e., the fourth–third century BC and its owner was a songstress of Amun-Re in the temple of Karnak.