The funerary painted limestone stela under study is kept now in the Egyptian Museum, bearing the registration number CCG 1573 (Plate 1). According to the Museum Catalogue, the stela was purchased from Luxor in 1889, its provenance is may be Moaalla, the date of it is broadly Old Kingdom to the Middle Kingdom^([1]).


*    I am grateful to the General Director of the Egyptian Museum for supporting my research on this stela, and for granting me the permission to publish it
([1]) L. Borchardt, Denkmäler des Alten Reiches, Teil II (CG 1542-1808), Kairo, 1964, p. 176; as for the provenance, see: p. 20.