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

Funerary Stela of Thenet Third Intermediate PeriodThebes

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 37.1385E. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 37.1385E
Find spot: Thebes, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Third Intermediate Period
Dynasty: Dynasty 22 (probably)
Date: ca. 945–712 B.C.E.
Date range: 945 BCE – 712 BCE
Materials: ['Wood', 'gesso', 'pigment']
Height: 25.7 cm
Width: 21.0 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Funerary Stela of Thenet (37.1385E). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/18926

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Object Label: Both of these stelae depict a woman entering the afterlife and approaching or worshipping a god or gods who control entrance to the next world. Both women have yellow skin representing the golden skin of a goddess, thereby indicating that they have resumed their original gender after rebirth and entered the afterlife as women. Gender transformation has ended for them. Details of these stelae reveal the gods who control entrance to the next world. In Stela of the Lady of the House, Hery-ib-Neith, the deceased is led by the god Thoth, who guides her into the presence of the other gods. Here she meets Rehorakhty (a form of Horus) as well as the goddesses Isis and Nephthys. Isis raised her son Horus with the help of her sister Nephthys. This scene suggests that the deceased, too, is tended by these goddesses after her rebirth. Stela of the Lady of the House and Singer, Thenet, depicts another step in the entrance process: Thenet raises her hands in worship to Rehorakhty. Caption: Funerary Stela of Thenet, ca. 945–712 B.C.E.. Wood, gesso, pigment, 10 1/8 x 8 1/4 in. (25.7 x 21 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1385E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

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Found at Thebes

Deities Horus Isis Thoth Nephthys Neith

Materials Gesso

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BKM-Accession 37.1385E tier-2
BKM-Object 4146 tier-2

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