Limestone Tablet, Stela
date: label: Accession Date
content: 26 Aug 1913
name: label: Donor Name
content: Egyptian Exploration Fund
label: Site Name
content: Abydos
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Gift through S. W. Woodward. Stela of Nebsumenu Dyn. XVIII. Late Middle Kingdom stela. Published translation: cf. Cemeteries of Abydos III, p. 36, Pl. XIV:2, is substantially correct .... Henry Fischer, Metro. Mus. of Art, 1/20/64. Exhibit, Hall 26, 1976." 1978 NMNH slide set caption: Funerary Stele, limestone, incised and painted hieroglyphs and feast scene, Egyptian, Abydos, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1400 B.C. Hall 26 exhibit label identifies object as Funerary stele of Nebsumenu, Abydos, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1400 B.C. and gives this translation of hieroglyphic inscription: "An offering which the king gives to Osiris, lord of Abydos, and Upwawet, lord of the Sacred Land, and Min-hor-nekht, that they may give offerings of bread and beer, flesh and fowl, cloth and thread, incense and ointment, and all things good and pure on which the god lives to the Ka of the Osiris Nebsumenu, justified, born of the lady of the house, Bebi, justified. It is his brother who makes his name to live, the judge, Mouth of Nekhen, Si-Amun." Note re photos: Negative # 78-8775 is frontal, med, overview. 78-8776 is 3/4, med, overview.
label: Notes
content: From NMNH Exhibit Hall "Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt" label for this artifact, 2011: Stela of Nebsumenu, Abydos, c. 1500 B.C. The offering table on this monument holds a goose and beef shoulder - foods to forever nourish Nebsumenu, owner of the tomb. Egyptians believed the god Osiris was buried at Abydos, so many left stone monuments there as a form of worship.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ancient Egyptian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 055827
label: USNM Number
content: A279281-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stela
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 36.25 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 21.25 cm