Two young women are standing opposite each other holding lotus flowers to their noses. In the other hand, they are holding a small cloth. Kety (on the right) is represented slimmer and leaner than her sister. Her dress shows a rare lozenge pattern. On the offering table in between the pair lie two calves' heads and one goose head, who are to be understood pars pro toto -as in hieroglyphic writing- as meaning "oxen and fowl". The somewhat rigid two-dimensional relief is of a high artistic quality, full of life, elegance and individual differentiation.
An offering which the king gives to Osiris, the Lord of Busiris, who resides in the west, so that he will give a funerary offering of bread and beer, meat and poultry to the venerable Kety, born of Hetep, (and) Senet, born of Hetep.
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