Funerary Stele with Family Portrait

Description This relef stele depicts two women, a girl, and a boy on a funeral couch between two jackals. The two jackals are the jackel god of the dead, Anubis. The piece has an inscription in Greek, and is said to be from Akhmim.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
6/22/1971	Treatment	cleaned
6/09/1987	Loan Consideration	examined for loan
1/13/1989	Treatment	cleaned; other
11/24/1998	Examination	survey
5/03/1999	Loan Consideration	examined for loan
5/04/1999	Treatment	cleaned; loss compensation; other

Exhibitions

• Pagan and Christian Egypt: Egyptian Art from the First to the Tenth Century A. D.. Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn. 1941.
• Beyond the Pharaohs: Egypt and the Copts in the Second to Seventh Centuries A.D.. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1989.
• Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 2000.

Provenance Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] (?); Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1923, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Translation] Didymis, 40 years old, Theodora, her daughter, 19, Athas a baby of one year [not represented], Dionysarin, 45, Athur, 10, 1st year of the indiction. Farewell.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1923