Stela

This round-topped wooden stela, covered in gesso and painted in vibrant colors, belonged to the songstress of Amun, Ta-sherit-akhet. She is depicted in a gesture of veneration, wearing a seemingly diaphanous long robe with billowing sleeves and a long tripartite wig adorned with an unguent cone and a lotus flower. Seated before her is Re-Horakhty. His throne, painted blue and red with a yellow border, rests upon a mat of bound green sedges. The god wears a large solar disk upon his head and holds the crook and flail, traditional symbols of royal authority. In front of him stands an offering table heaped with food and libations. Six vertical columns of text above the offerings and the figure of the deceased woman read: “Words spoken by Re-Horakhty: may he give incense and linen to the Osiris songstress of the women’s quarter (gynaeceum)of Amun, Ta-sherit-akhet, justified, daughter of the god-beloved scribe of the stable, Nes-pa-netjer […], justified.”