Painted wooden panel of Tabakenkhonsu

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

As part of the burial equipment, funerary stelae made a prayer for offerings for the maintenance of the deceased. In addition to forms of Osiris, Re-Harakhty and Atum—as the rising and setting sun and thus connected with continued life—are particularly favored focal gods. In contrast to stelae of the Third Intermediate Period, usually a more subdued coloring and a more standardized style are adopted in this period. This stela depicts the woman Tabakenkhonsu led by the god Thoth being presented to Isis and Osiris beneath the body of the goddess Nut arching over the top of the stela. An offering of Geb is recorded. Tabakenkhonsu's father's name is damaged, but her mother was Tami.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.

Metropolitan Museum of Art