Stela

The round top, wooden stela belonged to a man named Djed-djehuty-iuefankh. It was covered in linen cloth and plastered, to possibly obtain a smoother surface to decorate or to hide wood showing significant imperfections. The scene is brightly colored and portrays the deceased together with a number of deities. Facing Djed-djehuty-iuefankh is Osiris, who greets the deceased, then Isis and Nephthys, who stand behind the god. The four sons of Horus (Imsety, Hapy, Duamutef, and Qebehsenuef) follow the goddesses. An offering table, with offerings of fish and other delicacies and libations, as well as a lotus flower, sits between the figure of the deceased and Osiris. The goddess of the West stands, embracing the deceased, on the far right of the stela. Below the scene, which occupies roughly half of the stela, there are several lines of an offering prayer: “A gift which the king gives (to) Osiris, foremost of the westerners, the great god, lord of Abydos and (to) Re-Horakhty, the great god, lord of the heavens and chief of the gods, that they may give invocation offerings of bread and beer, cattle and fowl, every offering and every provision, a thousand of incense, a thousand of garments, everything good and pure, everything sweet and pleasant on which the god lives for the Osiris, [the funerary priest] of Horus the great one, lord of the heavens and lord of Mesen and (for) the hesek-priest of Khonsu of Edfu, beholder of the secret of the eternal horizon, Djed-djehuty-iuefankh, son of the similarly-titled, Pasetchenfy, justified.