Stela of Tatiaset

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This is one of four stelae found near the doorway of the brick chapel of the family of Saiah, a wab, or purification priest of Amun who lived during the latter half of the 22nd Dynasty. The original tomb in whose courtyard this chapel was built dates to the 11th Dynasty, over a century earlier. All of the stelae are made of wood, painted in green, red, yellow and black on a white gesso ground. The Mistress of the House, Chantress of Amun, Tatiaset, was a daughter of Siah. She was married to a Scribe of the House of the Divine votaress of Amun, Djedbastet, son of Merenkhonsu. One side of her stela shows the deceased being led by Anubis toward the seated statue of Ra-Harakhty. The other has the deceased on the left, facing the right. She and her husband, each seated on a chair, receive water from Nut in the tree. The goddess, as was common in this period, is shown in a frontal view.

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