Osiris, God Of Duat, The Underworld<br>Anubis, Canine God Of Cemeteries And Embalming<br>Isis, Goddess<br>Nephthys, Funerary Goddess<br>Tasheritbastet, funerary stela of Tasheritbastet - ARTWORLD - VADS: the online resource for visual arts

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Title	funerary stela of Tasheritbastet
Collection	Artworld: Oriental Museum
Artist	Osiris, God Of Duat, The Underworld Anubis, Canine God Of Cemeteries And Embalming Isis, Goddess Nephthys, Funerary Goddess Tasheritbastet
Date	304 - 30 BCE
Description	Round-topped funerary stela, with lunette and two registers. There is a winged sun-disk across the top of the lunette, with two pendant uraei and an inscription between and on the right hand side. There is a sky-symbol above a scene depicted on the upper register. The scene depicts a female, Tasheritbastet, standing on the right hand side, wearing a long wig and fringed dress, adoring Osiris standing on a pedestal. Osiris is depicted mummiform, wearing the atef-crown, holding the ankh-was-djed-sceptre, with bandages hanging in front of him. Osiris is followed by Anubis who stands with one hand raised and the other pendant holding the ankh-symbol. Isis and Nephthys follow, both holding papyrus sceptres in one hand and ankh-symbols in the other. The lower register has seven lines of hieroglyphs, facing to the right, and one line of demotic. There is some damage to the lower register.
Description Source	Birch, S. 1880. Catalogue of the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities at Alnwick Castle, London: R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, p. 310-311
Cultural Context	Egyptian
Id Number Former Accession	N1969
Inscription	Egyptian, hieroglyphic, incised on front Demotic, demotic, incised on front
Location Creation Site	Misr, Upper Egypt, Governorate of Sohag, Akhmim
Location Current Repository	The Oriental Museum
Subject	architecture, architectural element, stela, funerary, votive, woman, god, inscription
Measurements	23.2 x 41.4 cm
Context	Dated by Munro to 2nd/1st century BCE.
Relation References	Birch, S. 1880. Catalogue of the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities at Alnwick Castle. London: R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, p. 310-311 Hart, G. 1986. A Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses. London New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, p. 21-26, 101-
Rights	Oriental Museum, University of Durham, Durham, 2002. All Rights reserved
Rights Owner	OM
Style Period	Graeco-Roman Period, Ptolemaic Period
Work Type	stela

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