Stela of Amun-Hor, son of Pedy-Iset
Unidentified Ancient Egyptian maker
Late Period, Dynasty 25 (780-660 BCE)
Wood and red, green, white, and ochre paint
Overall: 9 7/16 × 7 1/16 in. (24 × 18 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
13.157.4111
Geography
Place Made: Thebes, Egypt, Northern Africa, Africa
Period
1000 BCE-1 CE
Object Name
Funerary Monument
Research Area
Ancient Egypt
Africa
Not on view
Inscriptions
"The Osiris, the Divine Father, the Web-Priest of Min, Amun-Hor, the justified son of the similarly titled Pedy-Iset." Over figures: Right: "The Divine Father, Amun-Hor, son of Pedy-Iset, the justified.” Left: "Re (the name of the god).
Label
This brightly painted wooden stela (a commemorative monument that was usually vertically oriented and often carved) would have once served as a funerary marker for an individual named Amun-Hor. The deceased himself stands before the god Horus, who is depicted as a mummy with a falcon’s head. This same conventional scene appears repeatedly in Egyptian funerary art; however, the inclusion of hieroglyphic text with the name and lineage of the deceased at the bottom of the stela provides an element of individuality to ensure that Amun-Hor is remembered by his descendants and the gods.
From the 2025 exhibition Stone, Sand, and Clay: Connecting Cultures in the Ancient Mediterranean, curated by Ashley B. Offill, Curator of Collections
Course History
ANTH 12.5, Death and the Afterlife in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Virginia Herrmann, Winter 2014
ANTH 12.5, Death and the Afterlife in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Virginia Herrmann, Winter 2014
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Spring 2015
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Spring 2015
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Spring 2015
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Spring 2015
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Fall 2019
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Fall 2019
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Fall 2019
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Fall 2019
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Fall 2019
SART 76, Senior Seminar, Enrico Riley, Winter 2022
Environmental Studies 26.01, Soil Ecological Systems, Bala Chaudary, Spring 2023
Anthropology 3.01, Introduction to Anthropology, Charis Ford Morrison Boke, Summer 2023
Environmental Studies 26.01, Soil Ecological Systems, Veer Chaudhary, Spring 2024
Engineering Sciences 24.01, Science of Materials, Alex Boys and Ursula Gibson, Winter 2025
History 10.02, Archival Research, Julia Rabig, Summer 2025
Anthropology 31.01, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 36.01, Gender in Cross Cultural Perspectives, Sabrina Billings, Fall 2025
Theater 15.01, Theatre & Society I, Samantha Lazar, Fall 2025
Exhibition History
Ancient Art (an exhibition in memory of Carloine Morris Galt), Mount Holyoke College, Dwight Art Memorial, Massachusetts, October 27-November 9, 1941, no. 17b.
Egyptian Antiquities at Dartmouth, Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 12, 2011-August 13, 2012.
Pigment of Imagination, Class of 1967 Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, April 15-August 5, 2022.
Stone, Sand, and Clay: Connecting Cultures in the Ancient Mediterranean, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 7, 2025 - November 23, 2025.
The Age of the Marvelous, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 21- November 24, 1991; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, January 25- March 22, 1992; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, May 24- August 25, 1992; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, October 6, 1992- January 3, 1993, naturalia no. n155.
Publication History
Barbara Thompson, "The African Collection at the Hood Museum of Art," African Arts, Volume XXXVII, No. 2, Los Angeles: African Studies Center, University of California, 2004, ill. p. 16.
Provenance
Found in the collection; catalogued, 1913.
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