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Egypt
Demotic mortuary stela 332 BCE-100 CE
limestone
29.9 × 20.5 × 7.4 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented by the Committee of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1899
© Public Domain
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Demotic mortuary stela
332 BCE-100 CE
Medium
limestone
Measurements
29.9 × 20.5 × 7.4 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented by the Committee of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1899
© Public Domain
Gallery location
18th Century Decorative Arts - Gandel Hall Costume Corridor
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
These two private votive stelae (round-topped stone tablets) are divided into three sections of decoration and text. The upper sections are carved with winged solar discs and two pendant uraei (rearing cobras), and the middle fields are decorated with scenes relating to the afterlife. On one stela Osiris, god of the underworld, is being worshipped by a man and a woman, and on the other the deceased is lying on a lion-couch with Anubis, god of the dead, making an offering of incense with Isis and Nephthys mourning on either side. Below these scenes, each stela is carved with two lines of demotic script, the most cursive form of hieroglyphs.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Egypt
Accession Number
794-D2
Department
Antiquities
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