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British Museum 829

BM 829

BM 829 - Minnefer © Randy Rhody
Funerary stela of Minnefer (upper portion)
height 65 cm, width 55 cm entire stela (25 3/8 x 21 3/4 in)
Middle Kingdom Twelfth Dynasty, Year 29 of Amenemhat II

"Regnal year 29 of the living Horus acclaimed, good god Nubkaure, given life, stability, and dominion like Ra enduringly. An offering which the king gives to Osiris lord of Djedu, Khentyimentu, great god, lord of Abydos, and great gods of the western desert so that they may give a voice offering of bread, beer, oxen, and fowl for the spirit of the revered one, the overseer of the chamber, Minnefer. He says: O living ones upon the earth Hm-priests and Hm-priestesses, and the w'b-priests of this temple, may you say a thousand of bread, beer, oxen, and fowl for the revered one, the overseer of the chamber, Minnefer."

Around the figure: "Kissing the ground to Wepwawet and to Khentyimentu."


 
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Berlin:
Berlin 1197
London:

BM 162

BM 558
BM 577
BM 579
BM 636
BM 829

Vienna:

Wien 95
Wien 6125
Location unknown:
Khu
Baltimore:
WAM 41.28
Berkeley:
PAHMA 6-1204
PAHMA 6-1903
New York:
NYMMA 98.4.6
NYMMA 16.10.327
NYMMA 16.10.333
Philadelphia:
UPMAA 29-66-615
San Jose:
RC 2822
RC 2990

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