Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · stela

Funerary Stela of Nehemes-Ra-taway

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Accession: 37.588E
Find spot: Thebes, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Third Intermediate Period to Late Period
Dynasty: Dynasty 25 to Dynasty 26
Date: ca. 760–525 B.C.E.
Date range: 760 BCE – 525 BCE
Materials: ['Limestone', 'pigment']
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Funerary Stela of Nehemes-Ra-taway (37.588E). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/18875

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Description

Object Label: This painted stela represents the stela’s owner, Nehemes-Ra-tawy, offering to the gods Osiris and Re-Horakhty. Re-Horakhty, the solar deity, depicted as a falcon with a red sun disk on its head, was believed to be reborn daily with the help of Osiris, the god of the Underworld. Together, the two gods assisted in the rebirth of Nehemes-Ra-tawy. The standard offering prayer below the image was meant to provide her spirit with all necessities in the afterlife. Catalogue description: Culture Egyptian Caption: Egyptian. Funerary Stela of Nehemes-Ra-taway, ca. 760–525 B.C.E.. Limestone, pigment, 10 3/8 x 8 3/8 x 2 1/2 in., 13 lb. (26.4 x 21.3 x 6.4 cm, 5.9kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.588E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06

Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

An ancient Egyptian stela featuring hieroglyphic inscriptions and figures of deities.

The artifact is a stela with a rounded top, featuring detailed painted images and hieroglyphic inscriptions. The composition includes three registers at the top, depicting figures of Egyptian deities including Ra and possibly Osiris. Below these scenes, there are several lines of hieroglyphic text, likely detailing offerings or prayers. The style is characteristic of funerary stelae, with vibrant red and yellow hues used in the figures.

funerary New Kingdom good

Deities RaOsiris

Materials limestonepaint

Signs Re ×3 Ankh ×2

Visible text "Htp-di-nsw Wsir nb Ddw"

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Found at Thebes

Deities Osiris Ra

Materials Limestone Paint

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 37.588E tier-2
BKM-Object 4048 tier-2

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