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| Keywords: Egyptian - Woman with Lotus - Walters 2285.jpg At the end of the Old Kingdom the authority of the king and court had eroded and Egypt split into at least two distinct regions Without a great royal court to patronize workshops artists and artisans worked for local governors and officials Lively regional styles developed usually showing elongated fluid figures with features such as the hands eyes and ears emphasized Here the inscriptions are an invocation to Anubis god of embalming and mummification requesting funerary offerings of food and drink for the deceased This stela carved in sunk relief depicts a woman named Nefer-khabet She wears a long narrow tight-fitting garment a long wig a collar an armlet and a bracelet and anklets Her skin is painted pale yellow her garment is pale blue and her various pieces of jewelry are painted a darker shade of blue She faces to the right and holds a blue lotus blossom with her left hand in front of her face while her right arm hangs down at her side In front of her is a short small table heaped with offerings two basins and two loaves a shoulder of meat vegetables and more loaves ; beneath it are ewer and a basin More offerings two baskets with food four pottery jars on stands loaves and bunches of onions are placed to the right of this table The offerings are painted in red yellow and pale green and are surrounded on three sides all except the bottom by a thin black rectangular border Three rows and one column of inscription in blue are placed above her and to her right Surrounding the scene on three sides except for the bottom is a border consisting of pale green yellow red and black boxes with an outline of black around them The stela is broken on all four sides breaking off three areas upper left lower left and right of the colored-block border The yellow green red blue and brown colors are well preserved ca 2170 2020 BC First Intermediate limestone paint cm 45 46 5 ; size cm 52 54 7 5 accession number 22 85 16662 Dikran Kelekian New York and Paris Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1924 Translation An offering which the king gives to Anubis who is upon his mountain the mi-wet the lord of the necropolis in all his places offerings to the sole royal ornament the revered one Nefer-Khabet place of origin Abydos present-day Araba al-Madfuna Egypt Walters Art Museum license Ancient Egyptian reliefs in the Walters Art Museum Reliefs of the Egyptian first intermediate period Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Armlets in art Ancient Egyptian art from Abydos | ||||
