Funerary stela of Ankhefenkhons, priest
of Amun. Underneath an arching winged
sun disk a double scene shows
Ankhefenkhons adoring Ra-Horakhty on the
right and Atum on the left, the two
deities representing the rising and
setting sun and thus the complete solar
cycle. The rest of the stela is taken up
by six lines of text in which Ra-Horakhty
and Atum promise bread, beer, cattle,
birds, incense, wine, milk, all good and
pure things and all sweet things on
which the god lives, all offerings and
provisions for the ka of Ankhefenkhons.
The figures on the stela are narrow
across the shoulders and waist, giving
the impression of slender, elongated
bodies. These attenuated proportions are
frequently found on Twenty-sixth Dynasty
funerary stelae from Thebes and
elsewhere, and can recur into the
Ptolemaic period. They form a
considerable contrast with the robust
style of figure that was also in
fashi8on at the time. Probably from
Thebes. Painted sycamore fig wood.
London, British Museum.