Stele of Peteminis; limestone; no paint; top: winged disc, mummy in funerary boat flanked by two animals; middle (from left to right): goddess (probably Isis, based on crown), Osiris on throne, offering table, dead man held by Anubis; bottom: Coptic inscription in Greek letters; 14½ inches x 9½ inches, 5 inches thick. Roman period. Translation: Line 1: Peteminis (name meaning "He who Min has given") with his age of 40 years; Line 2: Peteasmephis (name meaning "He who Isis, his mother, has given). Line 3: Toutmas (name meaning ?)
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Coptos, Upper Egypt
Verbatim coll. place:
attributed to the Roman town of the 1900 Tebtunis excavations or thought to have been purchased at Abydos, but according to Todd Hickey, it originates from Coptos.
Culture or time period:
Byzantine (395-1453 AD), Coptic Egypt (312–641 AD), and Roman Empire (27 BC–395 AD)
Collector:
George Andrew Reisner
Collection date:
1888-1900?
Materials:
Limestone
Person depicted:
Anubis (Egyptian deity), Isis (Egyptian and Roman deity), Osiris (Egyptian deity), and Peteminis
Inscription:
ΠΕΤΕΜΙΝΙCΕΤωΝΜ ΠΕΤΕΑCΜΗΟΙ C ΤΟΥΓΜΑC
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Anubis, Coptic (language), Greek (language), Isis, Mummies (bodies), and Osiris
Department:
Ancient Egypt
Dimensions:
height 35 centimeters, depth 15 centimeters, and width 24 centimeters