An Egyptian Limestone Round-topped Stela, early 26th Dynasty, circa 664-600 B.C.

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An Egyptian Limestone Round-topped Stela

early 26th Dynasty, circa 664-600 B.C.

carved in both shallow and sunk relief in two registers, the upper register with owner, Penptah, shown twice in a symmetrical composition, on the right Penptah kneeling before the goddess Hathor, and on the left with Penptah kneeling before Hathor shown cow-headed, the goddess in both scenes holding a was-scepter and an ankh, and wearing the sun-disk with cow horns, the inscriptions above the owner giving his name and title ”the god’s father Penptah”; the lower register carved with an offering formula in five lines, translating “ Mistress of Aphroditopolis, May she cause every going forth with all her true offerings upon her offering table for the ka of the God’s Father Penpt[ah] , Son of the God’s Father Pa-isi, May you enter into the upper broad hall of the great broad hall of Osiris, receiving from the hands of the Double Heh, may you be justified in the necropolis, that one does not bring decay (upon you) “.

30.5 by 24.1 cm.