Stela Fragment, Late 18th Dynasty


Fragment of a Stela
Late Dynasty 18, ca. 1327-1295 BCE
Limestone, from Thebes, Deir el-Bahri
H. 42.5 cm (16 3/4 in); w. 48 cm (18 7/8 in)
Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1905, (05.4.2)

(From the info card)
"Userhat, shown here with his wife Nefertari, testifies to his own good qualities and to his trust in his god, probably Amun. As Userhat was a priest in the mortuary cults of both Amenhotep III and Tutankhamun, the couple must have lived during the later Eighteenth Dynasty. The complex layering of relief and the style of the figures demonstrate the influence the art of Amarna had at Thebes."