stelae

Rectangular limestone stela roughly modelled and incised with rounded upper framing line enclosing at top two wedjat eyes and one line of hieroglyphs reading "an offering given of the king to P(tah)-S(okar Osiris lord of Djedu" continued in the two vertical lines of hieroglyphs below right "great god lord of Abydos to give bread and beer, cattle and fowl, cloth and ointement-vessels, all good pure things on which a god lives, for the ka of the Osiris Usermont"; at lower left is the depiction of a man wearing kilt tied at waist with edge forming front triangle, standing facing right. Broken in two pieces and joined by blackish cement.

Presumably purchased by Petrie in Egypt

() late Middle Kingdom

LDUCE-UC14453

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology