stelae

Crudely sculpted limestone stela incised with depictions and hieroglyphic inscription: wedjat eyes at top, four lined horizontal lines of hieroglyphs asking for share in offerings of king to Ptah-Sokar and Osiris lord of Djedu for Huy, who is shown depicted below centre, seated on a high-backed animal-legged chair, facing right to an animal-legged table of offerings, and holding a bunch of five lotus flowers, with at right a standing left-facing man ofering a cylindrical ointment jar, named in the line of hieroglyphs behind him as Khenmes; to left behind Huy is a standing man facing right, holding an ankh-sign, identified as the dedicator by the line of hieroglyphs above and behind him "it is Neferrenu who makes your name live".

Second Intermediate Period

LDUCE-UC14450

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology