Stela of Saiah ca. 825-712 B.C. Third Intermediate Period This is one of four stelae found near the doorway of the brick chapel of the family of Saiah, a wab, or purification priest of Amun who lived during the latter half of the 22nd Dynasty. The original tomb in whose courtyard this chapel was built dates to the 11th Dynasty, over a millennium earlier. All of the stelae are made of wood, painted in green, red, yellow and black on a white gesso ground.Inscribed for Saiah himself, this stela is painted on both sides. On the front, the deceased, to viewer right, presents a heart-shaped object to a figure of the falcon-headed god Re-Harakhty-Atum, who sits on a cubic throne atop a reed mat. Before the god is a table piled high with offerings, and standing behind him is the goddess of the West, Imentet. In the lunette of the stela is a winged sun disk, two wedjat eyes (eyes of Horus), and two shen rings, symbols of eternity. The inscription above the offering table asks that Re-Harakhty-A

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Stela of Saiah ca. 825-712 B.C. Third Intermediate Period This is one of four stelae found near the doorway of the brick chapel of the family of Saiah, a wab, or purification priest of Amun who lived during the latter half of the 22nd Dynasty. The original tomb in whose courtyard this chapel was built dates to the 11th Dynasty, over a millennium earlier. All of the stelae are made of wood, painted in green, red, yellow and black on a white gesso ground.Inscribed for Saiah himself, this stela is painted on both sides. On the front, the deceased, to viewer right, presents a heart-shaped object to a figure of the falcon-headed god Re-Harakhty-Atum, who sits on a cubic throne atop a reed mat. Before the god is a table piled high with offerings, and standing behind him is the goddess of the West, Imentet. In the lunette of the stela is a winged sun disk, two wedjat eyes (eyes of Horus), and two shen rings, symbols of eternity. The inscription above the offering table asks that Re-Harakhty-A

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