Stela

The wooden funerary stela, plastered and painted in vivid colors, depicts the deceased, Diefankh, standing in a gesture of veneration before the sun-god Re, who is shown in mummiform guise and with a falcon head, holding a was-scepter. Diefankh is wearing a long, pleated kilt with a fringe belt and a single sash, and his wig is enhanced by a cone of perfumed unguent. Between the two figures, an offering stand holds a large lotus flower. There are five columns of hieroglyphic text in the lunette of the stela, which present a shortened version of the standard offering formula of the time: “Words said by the Osiris, the god’s father of Amun, Diefankh, justified, to Re: ‘an offering that the king gives (to) the one in front of (his) divine booth.’”