The stela has a lightly rounded top and contains one register, in which an offering scene is depicted. Ramesses I offers two loaves of bread to Osiris, who stands behind an offering table. The king wears a tight-fitting head dress (or a smooth wig) adorned with a double-headed uraeus. One head is a cobra's, the other a vulture's; the symbols for Upper and Lower Egypt. On the king's back hangs a counterpoise for his necklace, which has no details in relief. He wears a short kilt and is barefoot. Osiris wears the Atef-crown and holds the crook and the flail. He is, as usual, depicted as a mummy. The offering table is loaded with offerings, on top of which lies a papyrus flower. The inscriptions are the legenda to the persons depicted.
(1) The lord of the Two Lands: Menpehtyre ("Enduring is the power of Re"), (2) The lord of appearances: Ramesses ("Re has given birth to him"), (3) given life. (4) Osiris, foremost of the Westerners, (5) the great god, lord of the necropolis.
Bibliography
W.M. van Haarlem, Een egyptische stèle van Ramses I, MVAPM 13 (maart 1977), 6/fig. 1
W.M. van Haarlem (ed.), CAA Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam, Fasc. 1, 1986, 46-47
R.A. Lunsingh Scheurleer, W.M. van Haarlem, Gids voor de afdeling Egypte, Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam, 1986, 23-24/fig. 3a,b (nr. 1)
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