Funerary Stela

The limestone funerary stela is inscribed with four lines of exquisitely rendered hieroglyphic text, where the details of the signs, in particular the feathers of the birds and the antlers of the gazelle head, are painstakingly reproduced. The inscription reads: “A royal offering of Osiris, lord of Busiris, foremost of Westerners, lord of Abydos in all his beautiful and pure places. Invocation offerings of beer and bread, 1000 in bread and beer, 1000 in oxen, fowl and gazelles, for the revered, before the great god, lord of the sky, Intef, the excellent one, justified before Montu, lord of Waset (Thebes).”