Object Number: H4586

Collection: Egyptology

Object Name: stela

Description: Rectangular wooden stele with rounded top. Decorated on one side. At the top there is a winged sundisc (blue, red, green) with uraei (red and yellow) and eyes (red, blue, black). Below this there are five (5) short vertical columns of hieroglyphs (black writing on a yellow background with green column dividers). The scene which takes up the bottom two thirds of the stele shows a seated mummiform bird-headed god (white, green, gold, red and blue) with sun disc (white, black and red) being given offering by the tomb owner (who wears the leopard skin of a priest - yellow, black, white and red-brown skin). A table of offerings stands between them. The paint is chipped and there are cracks along the grain of the wood especially near the edges of the stele. Translation: 'Speech of Re-Harakhty, chief of the Gods, may he give food offerings to the ka of the Osiris, the Great Priest of Amun in Karnak, one truly precise and regular in observance of the house of Amun, Pedimut, son of Hori true of voice'.

On Display at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Egypt Gallery