Obelisk of Nakht-Bast-eru

Obelisk of Nakht-Bast-eru
This miniature wooden obelisk has a vertical column of inscription with the offering formula on three of its sides. On the side without inscription one is a wooden dowel. Another figure, perhaps a god, was originally fixed to this peg but is now lost. As the inscription refers to funerary gods the missing god may well have been Osiris. Perhaps this obelisk formed part of the lid of a shabti box.

LATE PERIOD:  26TH DYNASTY
FUNERARY TEXT:  FORMULA Htp-di-nsw.t
(1) An offering, which the king gives to Anubis, who is on his mountain, Lord of Ta-djeser, who is at the forefront of the divine hall, so that he may cause that my heart comes forth at its (right) place on the scales, and (cause) a going behind (the Justified One for) Nakht-Bast-eru.
(2) An offering, which the king gives to Osiris, Wenennefer, the Great God, ruler of eternity, so that he may give food for my soul, water (in) my body and clothing for the mummy of the Osiris Nakht-Bast-eru.
(3) An offering, which the king gives to Anubis, the imy-wt, (for the wellbeing) of the Osiris Nakht-Bast-eru, (namely) health of the body, divinity of the mummy, without going to the devourer of the dead.
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