Amenemhat funerary stela
Middle Kingdom - 11th Dynasty
Around 2000 BC
Colored limestone
Thebes - Excavations of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1915-1916
It shows a woman and two men sitting on a chair with lion's legs and represented on the left side of the offering table. Below the sitting woman is an upside-down mirror with a handle.
On the right: A woman is shown standing with her right hand on her chest and her left hand open in a position of respect and reverence, offering a sacrificial table.
A table for offerings: onions, beef ribs, lettuce, liver, leg of ox, two loaves of bread under the table. Men are depicted in reddish-brown, women in creamy yellow. Men wear a short white linen kilt, green bracelets and necklaces (green symbolizes rebirth after death), while women wear anklets.
This rectangular painting gained good fame for its bright colors and original artistic composition. Instead of the traditional scene of a married couple, the artist Amenemhet depicts the husband with his wife, son, and daughter, where they are represented sitting except for his daughter, who stands in front of an offering table piled with various colors of offering, and like a son sitting between his mother and father, and from underneath His wife is a basket containing a mirror for her vanity.
The scene clearly shows hope for family unity, in life and after death as well.
Egyptian Museum
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