A block statuette of the Embalmer Ipu, who is shown seated on the ground, knees raised to his chin and his hands crossed. Figures of Osiris, Isis and Horus are carved on the panel in front of his legs and on each side is further text, the left side is damaged. A plinth runs along the back of the figure, also inscribed with an offering formula.
Plinth: An offering which the king gives [to] Anubis, Lord of the Sacred Land, that he may give invocation offerings for the Ka of the embalmer, Ipu, true of voice. Side: A boon which the king gives [to] Osiris-Wennefer, Lord of Eternity, Ruler forever, that he may give invocation offerings of bread and beer, oxen and fowl, libations, wine, milk and every good and pure thing on which a god lives (?) for the Ka of the greatly favoured one, beloved of his Lord, the embalmer, Ipu, true of voice.
Bibliography
Charles Gatty; "Catalogue of the Mayer Collection", 1879, p 48, No. 308.
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