ABSTRACT
89. [ooden stela of Ihŷ (Pl. LXXV). This tablet is composed of two boards held together by pegs or dowels, and covered with a fine coat of stucco, the surface of which has been polished to receive the writing. Upon it are the following representations:—Above, to the right, is drawn the sacred Barque of Sokaris; below, to the left, is figured the deceased with staff and sceptre, and before him, a boy offering a goose, a table with offerings, a lotus-flower, loaves of bread, joints of meat, &c. The legend is in the hieratic writing typical of the Hyksos period, and reads:—
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‘Ihŷ comes in the boat of Sokaris; to him has been granted justification. 1 He is favoured of the Lord of the Shrine. 2 A [erkheru-offering in bread and wild fowl to the veteran in the presence of Ptah, Ihŷ, justified.’
