A limestone panel from a false door at the Saqqara tomb of Nyankhtety, Controller of Scribes at the Royal Palace. This is a particularly fine example of a funerary stela from the late Old Kingdom, designed to be embedded above the false door, through which the deceased's spirit could continue to enter and leave the tomb. The deceased is depicted in raised relief sitting before an offering table, upon which are loaves of bread, poultry and meat.
SAQQARA NECROPOLIS
OLD KINGDOM: 4TH DYNASTY
sxm sS spr r sS Hr pr N-anx-tt
spr r sS nsw rx.t N-anx-tt
Inventory number M13850
LIVERPOOL MUSEUM
Piotr Bienkowski and Angela Tooley., Gifts of The Nile: Ancient Egyptian Arts and Crafts in Liverpool Museum., 1995., 83; pl.133.
Charles Gatty; Catalogue of the Mayer Collection, 1877, 45 No. 294.
G.A. Reisner; The Development of the Egyptian Tomb down to the Accession of Cheops, 1936, 296-7.
Raymond Weill; Des Monuments et de l'Histoire des IInd et IIIrd Dynasties Egyptiennes, 1908, 225-30.
Preservation:
The stele is in excellent condition, the only damage sustained being along the bottom, presumably occurring when it was taken from the wall. No trace of colour remains, even in the hieroglyphs carved in sunk relief, which would originally have been filled with pigment.
Text comment:
Standard name and titulary of a court official, and offering lists.
Disposition:
The text is written horizontally above the figure of Nyankhtety and also in a single vertical line to the right of the figure.
Iconography:
This is a particularly fine example of a funerary stela from the late Old Kingdom, on which the details would originally have been picked out in bright colours. The deceased is depicted seated before an offering table upon which are loaves of bread, poultry and meat.
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