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

Relief with Netherworld Deities

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Accession: 37.1487E
Find spot: Saqqara, Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: late Dynasty 18 to early Dynasty 19
Date: ca. 1336–1250 B.C.E.
Date range: 1336 BCE – 1250 BCE
Materials: ['Limestone']
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Relief with Netherworld Deities (37.1487E). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/19182

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Object Label: This relief from the tomb of Yepu, a high official, represents The Book of the Dead, Spell 145, in which the deceased approaches the fourth and sixth gates of the netherworld. The words that the deceased should recite when approaching them are inscribed here along with the gates themselves and guardian deities. The wealthier the individual, the more these valuable spells would be supplied in multiple, redundant forms; in addition to this relief on his tomb wall, Yepu likely also had a Book of the Dead papyrus to help him remember all of the spells when he reached the netherworld. Caption: Relief with Netherworld Deities, ca. 1336–1250 B.C.E.. Limestone, 10 7/8 × 2 1/2 × 24 3/8 in., 41.5 lb. (27.6 × 6.4 × 61.9 cm, 18.82kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1487E. (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.

A carved limestone slab featuring hieroglyphic inscriptions and a depiction of Anubis.

The artifact is a limestone slab with detailed carvings including vertical columns of hieroglyphics. In the center, there is a depiction of Anubis, the jackal-headed god, standing within a framed panel. The style is typical of Egyptian religious iconography, with well-defined hieroglyphs carved along the sides, and a central focus on the deity Anubis.

religious New Kingdom good

Deities Anubis

Materials limestone

Signs ankh ×3 djed was ×2

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Found at Saqqara

Deities Anubis

Materials Limestone

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 37.1487E tier-2
BKM-Object 4159 tier-2

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