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The stela is a rectangular, upright limestone slab featuring seven vertical registers of black hieroglyphic text separated by thin green painted borders. The script is neatly arranged and remains largely legible, with a faint discoloration or repair visible in the center-right section of the inscription. The surface appears matte and aged, consistent with ancient funerary artifacts preserved in museum collections.
This object reflects the Egyptian funerary practice of recording offering formulas (htp-di-nsw) to ensure the sustenance of the deceased in the afterlife. It is associated with the historical period of the Amarna transition, as indicated by the deliberate defacement of references to the god Amun, a practice common during the reign of Akhenaten.
Vertical columns of Middle Egyptian hieroglyphs containing a standard hetep-di-nesu offering formula for the ka of the deceased, Amunemheb.
Translation
An offering which the king gives (to) Osiris... that he may give invocation offerings of bread, beer, oxen, and fowl... for the ka of the Osiris, the wab-priest, Amunemheb.
The Book of the Dead (Spells for Going Forth by Day)
The hieroglyphic columns represent traditional funerary offering formulas common to the genre of New Kingdom stelae.
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