Strip of Wood Covered with Gold Leaf Probably from a Piece of Furniture
Date:
ca. 1539-1075 B.C.E.
Description:
A strip of inscribed gilded wood. Prayer to Osiris. Possibly a fragment from a larger object, but the inscription is complete. Said to have come from a mummy which Abbott unwrapped.
Inscription: "An offering which the king gives (and) Osiris Khenty-Imentiu, Lord of Abydos, that he may give a burial in Western desert (of) Thebes to the ka of the Osiris, Prophet of Monthu, Lord of Thebes, the Chief Sculptor Bes."