Thick weathered brown-gray long arched stone fragment against a wooden-textured background. The fragment features rows of raised lines forming figures kneeling and featuring towards one another, along with scripture.
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Unknown Maker, Egyptian

Stela
Now On View

Maker

Unknown Maker, Egyptian

Culture

Egyptian

Title

Stela

Period

New Kingdom

Year

BCE 1300

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

limestone

Dimensions

58.4 x 38.1 x 10.2 cm (23 x 15 x 4 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift in honor of Florence Dunn Friedman from a friend and colleague

Object Number

2000.1.3

Type

Exhibition History

Ancient Egyptian Galleries
Jun 10, 2014

Label copy

In the top
right corner of this stone monument, known as a stela, the ancient Egyptian military scribe Amenmose raises his
hands in praise to the gods Osiris, Horus, and Isis. Below are fifteen members
of Amenmose’s family spanning four generations, all in the same pose—some of these
images were lost when the stela was damaged, but their names survive.  

Amenmose would have commissioned this stela for placement in a temple or
chapel, where it would have presented him as a man of high social status, publicly
displayed his religious devotion, and helped him secure the favor of the gods
in this life and the next.

–Jen Thum, assistant director of Academic Engagement and
assistant research curator, Harvard Art Museums

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Tombstone

Unknown Maker, Egyptian
Stela, BCE 1300
Limestone
58.4 x 38.1 x 10.2 cm (23 x 15 x 4 inches)
Gift in honor of Florence Dunn Friedman from a friend and colleague 2000.1.3

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