Stela with Anubis

3D Model

Round-topped Graeco-Roman Period (332 BC – 295 AD) funerary stela with sundisk lunette.

Scene shows Anubis (centre) leading the deceased (right) before a seated Osiris (left). Anubis offers an ankh to the seated Osiris. Three blank columns above the figures were presumably intended for an inscription that was never completed. An offering table is depicted in front of Osiris, floating at an odd angle. Four lines of incised greek text below the scene. The lower register consists of four lines of incised Greek inscription: ‘Genesis {son of} Chairemon, son of Demetrios and Tresis, in the month of Athyr (day) 17, lived 25 years’.

Excavated in 1907 by John Garstang from the Greaco-Roman cemetery of El-Balyana, part of the Abydos necropolis.

57 x 31 x 9.3 cm

Accession Number: E.25