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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Funerary Stela of the Gatekeeper Maaty Research Compiled for The
Paper Store, Inc. by K. Von Huben 4/2010 Please Introduction Egyptian art is fascinating, possibly because it is so strange. While
other cultures produced mummies, Egypt seems to be the only one that focused so intensely on death. The gods, half-man, half-animal, are both creepy and compelling; the mummies are the
stuff of legend, and The Book of the Dead is still being studied today. This paper describes the sculpture known as the Funerary Stela of the Gatekeeper Maaty. Discussion The
artwork under consideration is a piece called the "Funerary Stela of the Gatekeeper Maaty"; it comes from the "1st Intermediate Period", eleventh Dynasty of ht reign of Mentuhotep II and
it dates from around 2051-2030 B.C. (Funerary Stela of the Gatekeeper Maaty, 2010; hereafter "Maaty, 2010"). It was discovered in Upper Egypt, at Thebes, el-Tarif; it is a deep relief
carving in limestone (Maaty, 2010). It is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. What is it? A funerary stela is defined as a "stone
slab, sometimes wood, decorated with paintings, reliefs or texts. They usually commemorate an event" (Stela). Here, though, the purpose seems not commemorative but instead the stela depicts numerous objects that
will accompany Maaty on his journey to the underworld. The Egyptians saw the afterlife as little more than a continuation of this one, so the dead were buried with the
things they would need in the next world, including food, wine, games, even slaves were sometimes buried with their pharaohs. Here, on a table are stacked loaves of bread,
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