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Limestone stela of Montu-Hotep, dating to within the Middle Kingdom period (1900-1750 BC). The stela originally had very bright polychromic colouring, some of which is still visible. Montu-Hotep is shown seated and smelling a lotus flower, before his is an offering table piled high with the items that he required to be sustained with his eternity. The other people shown before offer tables are named on the stela are his mother and father, his grandfather. His brother who is standing to the bottom right is also names and it is him who dedicated the stela, and is show as still living.

The 'standard' offering formula is inscribed with an offering to Osiris, that he may give beer and bread, ox and fowl, and linen for the revered (justified before the gods) Montu-Hotep.



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