Budge, Ernest A. Wallis: Some account of the collection of Egyptian antiquities in the possession of Lady Meux: of Theobalds Park, Waltham Cross (London, 1896)

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STELE OF PET-BAST.

3. The deceased adoring the Sun-god in the boat

of the setting sun, and the legend *

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The inscriptions on this stele state that Pet-Bast
was a royal scribe, and that he was the son of the
Heru who was an ufeb, and scribe, and priest of the
ka, and the ufeb of Seb, and the scribe of the divine
hall of Amsu. The text which covers the lower part
of the stele consists of extracts from hymns to the
Sun-god; as they are well-known they are not repro-
duced in type. Ptolemaic Period. From Akhmim.
Height, 2 ft. 5 in. x 17I in.

54. Sepulchral stele of a woman, on which the
deceased is depicted standing by the side of a table
of offerings and a libation vase; the workmanship is
very rough, and the rudely cut hieroglyphics show
that it belongs to a late period. The inscription
reads:—

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