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Description: | Round-topped funerary stela. The lunette has two udjat-eyes with a shen-symbol between. Below the lunette are three rows of hieroglyphs. Hotep-di-nesw offering formula to Osiris for Shemrai, an architect. There is a large standing figure of Shemrai on the left, with cropped hair and wearing a wesekh collar and short kilt. There is a small scene to the right in which the small figure of his son Senenu similarly dressed and standing before an offering table, doing the hotep-di-nesw. There are four columns of text below, in which his family is listed. Remains of red paint are visible on the flesh. Description Source: Birch, S. 1880. Catalogue of the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities at Alnwick Castle, London: R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, p. 282-283 | Subjects: | stela votive funerary architectural element architecture stela man | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Osiris, God Of Duat, The Underworld | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=96... | Go to resource |
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