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Stela of Apis bull carrying the mummy of Nes(er)-amun
General Information

Separated from the mummy-shaped coffin of which it once formed the footboard, the board now appears to have been created as an independent work of art: a lively depiction of a bull with black spots, carrying a mummy on its back. According to a myth, the sacred Apis bull carried the corpse of Osiris for Horus.

Number 912
Storing Place Kunsthistorisches Museum - Vienna - Austria
Material Limestone
Type Stela
Type of Script Hieroglyphic
Discovery Place Thebes - Luxor - Egypt
Width 27 cm
Height 36.2 cm
Thickness 2 cm
Historical Period The Twenty-fifth Dynasty – The Third Intermediate Period
Inscriptions on the Monument
Transliteration
( If the Hieroglyphic,Demotic or Hieratic text is not appearing clear, install this file )

Dd mdw in Wsir nTr aA mnTw nb wAst Nsr- Im nb imAxw


Translation

Speech by Osiris, the great god, and by Montu, the Lord of the West. Nes(er)-amun, the lord of veneration.

Scientific Publishing

E. V.Bergmann, Inschriftliche Denkmäler, in: Recueil de Travaux rélatifs à la philologie et à l'archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes (RecTrav) 9 (1887) 49: Nr. 22.
Katalog "5000 Jahre Aegyptische Kunst", Wien (1961/62) 86, Nr. 154.
Katalog: "Osiris, Kreuz und Halbmond", Stuttgart (1984), 100, 102, Nr. 78.

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