Funerary stela of In-heret and Set-wahet-ankhu
Dynasty: Dynasty 9-13
Date: 2150-1640 B.C.
Medium: Painted limestone
Dimensions:
h.: 20 in. (50.8 cm)
w.: 12 1/4 in. (31.1 cm)
d.: 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm)
Credit Line: Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection
Object number: 86.138.137
Inscribed: Five horizontal lines of text written right to left above the scene of the deceased:
Line 1:
Htp-di-nsw wsir nb anx-tAwy nTr-aA nb AbDw
An offering that the king gives (to) Osiris, the Lord of Ankh-tawy, the great god, Lord of Abydos,
Line 2:
in-Hrt nTr-aA nb Tni ipt (sic) tp(y) Dw.f imy wt
and Onuris, the great god, Lord of Tjenu (Greek Thinis), and Anubis who is on his mountain, who is in the place of embalming,
Line 3:
nb tA Dsr di.f prt-xrw t Hnqt kAw Apdw mnxt Ss <Htpw> Df(Aw) qbHw
Lord of the Sacred Land, so that he may give invocation offerings of bread, beer, meat, poultry, clothing, alabaster, offerings and sustenance, cool water,
Line 4:
snTr xt-nbt nfrt wab(t) anx.t nTr im n kA n imAx
incense, and all good things on which a god lives for the ka of the revered one.
Line 5 (part 1):
in-Hrt ms.n anx-n.i-mwt
In-heret (Onuris), born of Ankh-ni-mut
Line 5 (part 2):
nbt prt Hmt.f mr.f st-wAHt-anxw mAat-xrw
Lady of the house, his wife, his beloved, Set-wahet-ankhu, justified.
Scenes below the main text from left to right:
1. Continuation of column 2 to finish the mother’s name, written right to left:
anxw
2. One column of text written left to right:
in-Hrt-Htp mAa-xrw irt.s st-wAHt-
Anhur-hotep, justified, engendered of Set-wahet-ankhu
3. One column of text written left to right:
sAt.f ddt-sbk irt.n st-wAHt-anxw
His daughter, Dedet-Sobek, engendered of Set-wahet-ankhu
4. One column of text written left to right:
sA.f rn.f-snb ir.n st-wAHt-anxw
His son, Renef-seneb, engendered of Set-wahet-ankhu
5 (top). One column of text written left to right:
Hknw
Hekenu-oil
5 (bottom). One column of text written left to right with scribal error (V31):
n kA.k di.tw
for your ka! May one give!
Additional information in curatorial file [S. Schellinger 2018]
Provenance: By purchase, the Stark family, Orange, Texas, between 1927 and 1929; by bequest, the Nelda C. and H. J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, 1965; by purchase, the San Antonio Museum of Art with funding from Mr. and Mrs. Robert Willson, 1986
Label Text
In-heret and his wife Set-wahet-ankhu are seated before a table piled high with food offerings on this funerary stela from their tomb. Their three children are depicted at the bottom of the relief: at left, their daughter Anhur-hotep, also deceased; in the center, another daughter, Dedet-sobek; and at right, their son Renef-seneb. The long inscription at the top of the stela invokes offerings of food and drink as well as clothing, alabaster, and incense on behalf of the deceased couple.
(Jessica Powers, 2018)
(Jessica Powers, 2018)
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