(From the info card) "This stele, or decorated stone monument, depicts a 'marshaller of the troops' named Amenemhet and his mother. He is portrayed holding a fly whisk, a symbol of authority. A beer jar with drinking straw is under his chair. The hieroglyphic text is a prayer to the god of the underworld, Osiris: "May he give a mortuary offering of bread and beer, oxen and fowl, linen, clothing, every good and pure thing upone which [the god] lives, for the ka [soul] of the guardsman Amenemhat, deceased."" |