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Walters Art Museum (Egyptian) · statue
Funerary Stele of Meri-neith Wah-ib-Re
Description
<p>Meri-neith Wah-ib-Re is represented twice on this round-topped funerary monument commemorating him and his parents. Beneath a winged sun disk, the official is shown worshipping the lord of the underworld, Osiris, and his wife, Isis. In front of Meri-neith's upraised hands is a table heaped with food and floral offerings. At the bottom, he makes a floral offering to his father, Psamtik, and mother, Amenirdis. The arrangement of this couple almost mirrors that of the divine couple above them. Between the two scenes are three lines of hieroglyphic text that record a request for funerary offerings on behalf of the three individuals.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/22.123' rel='external'>Funerary Stele of Meri-neith Wah-ib-Re</a></cite>, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.</p>
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A limestone funerary stele carved in relief, showing a seated or enthroned figure and multiple offering/worship scenes framed by a rounded arch and filled with hieroglyphic text.
The object is a vertically oriented limestone stele with a rounded top. Within the arched upper register, several figures and architectural/ritual elements appear in relief, including what looks like a seated central figure and surrounding standing figures. The middle/lower registers contain additional ritual scenes with attendants and recumbent/standing forms, accompanied by extensive hieroglyphic decoration across the fields and at the base. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible. A small museum accession/record label appears at the bottom right, but it is not part of the hieroglyphic inscription. The inscription is present but the excerpt is not legible enough in this image to reliably transcribe or assign exact sign values.
funerary
unknown
good
Materials
limestone
Signs
unknown hieroglyphic signs (multiple columns across registers) ×200
Inscriptions (4)
Inscription #1
English description
[At the top] The lord of the heaven, the (god) of Edfu (Behdet).
Inscription #2
English description
[First register] Osiris, the lord of the necropolis. Isis, the great, the God's mother. The revered before Osiris, Meri-neith Wah-ib-Re, son of Psametik.
Inscription #3
English description
[Lower register] Psametik, son of Tefnakhte. The Lady Amenerdais. His son, Meri-neith Wah-ib-Re, the blessed.
Inscription #4
English description
[MIddle register] An offering which the king gives (to) Ptah-Soker-Osiris, the great god, the lord of the necropolis, that he may give funerary offerings of bread, beer, oxen, fowl, all good pure things, incense, cool water (to) the Osiris, Meri-neith Wah-ib-Re, son of Psametik, the blessed, son of Tefnakhte, the blessed, born of Amenerdais.
Cross-references (2)
- Walters-AccNum 22.123 tier-2
- Walters-id 14107 tier-2
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