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Description: | Round-topped funerary stela, with two registers. On the upper register, there is a scene depicting the physician Hormes and his wife ?Sebekh-ab standing before an offering table, adoring Osiris. Osiris is depicted as a mummiform man wearing the atef-crown and holding a heqa-crook and flail. There are seven columns of hieroglyphs above the heads of Hormes and ?Sebekh-ab. On the lower register, there is a scene depicting one man and three women with incense cones and lotuses on their heads and wearing long plaited wigs, each holding an ankh-symbol and papyrus. There is text above their heads, giving the name of each. There are traces of paint on the flesh of Hormes and also on the hieroglyphs in the upper register. Description Source: Birch, S. 1880. Catalogue of the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities at Alnwick Castle, London: R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, p. 301-302 | Subjects: | stela votive funerary god woman man | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Osiris, God Of Duat, The Underworld Hor-mes, Physician | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=98... | Go to resource |
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