☆ ╚►★ ▲► °˚◦ღ ● => Painted limestone slab-stela of Kheti. End of XI to early XII Dynasty. From West Thebes (exact findspot unknown). In the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Kheti, the owner of this funerary slab, stands before a table laden with food and drink offerings. He wears a broad collar, wristbands, and a short kilt. He grasps a long staff in his left hand, and a short staff with upturned end in his right hand (a feature that occurs on stelae of XI and early XII Dynasty). Behind him stands his wife, wearing a long dress suspended by shoulder straps, leaving her breast exposed. The woman has wrist and ankle bracelets, and smells a large lotus flower. In her right hand she holds a cylindrical object of unknown nature. Before the woman are depicted some items of toilet : a chest with two ointment jars, one painted black to imitate obsidian, and the other spotted in black and white, to mean granite. Above them there is a mirror, inserted in a bag-like container, leaving exposed only the papyrus-shaped handle. Before the couple is depicted their son Montuhotepu, carrying the foreleg of an ox. He is dressed in the same way as his father. Surface of the stela preserves traces of an 18 squares grid, used by the artist for the proportions of human figures (see behind the woman). A short offering formula is incised on the upper side, on a sigle line of inscription : An offering which the king gives : 1000 of bread and beer, oxen and fowl, for the ka of the honoured one : Kheti, born of Ibi, (and) his wife, his beloved : Henet, born of Senet. His son, his beloved : Montuhotepu, born of Henet.
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 10:46:39 +0000
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