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The mother, Yatu, and her son, Amenemhat, sit in chairs with oversized cosmetic containers placed underneath. The distinctive flared shape of the white and red vessel beneath Yatu indicates that it holds ointment. Under Amenemhat\u2019s seat, a thin, white applicator sticks out of a blue jar containing eye paint called kohl. The vessel\u2019s color suggests that it is carved out of anhydrite, a fashionable choice for cosmetic vessels during the Middle Kingdom period when this mother and son lived.<\/p>\n","short_description":"This stela, or commemorative monument, depicts a mother, Yatu, and son, Amenemhat, surrounded by the objects they hoped to use in the afterlife. Oversized cosmetic containers sit under their seats. The flared white and red vessel beneath Yatu holds ointment, while the blue jar under Amenemhat contains eye paint called kohl. The vessel\u2019s color suggests that it is made of anhydrite, a popular choice for cosmetic vessels during the Middle Kingdom.","dimensions":"62.3 \u00d7 45.8 \u00d7 9.6 cm (24 1\/2 \u00d7 18 \u00d7 3 3\/4 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":9,"width":45,"height":62,"diameter":null,"clarification":null}],"medium_display":"Limestone and pigment","inscriptions":"Prayer, in four horizontal lines, for \"a royal offering of Osiris, Lord of 'Life of the Two Lands' (a quarter in Memphis). May he give a mortuary offering of bread and beer, oxen and geese, linen, clothing, every good and pure thing whereon [the god] lives, for the ka of the gaurdsman Amenhemat, deceased, born of Yatu, deceased, (and for the ka of) his mother, his beloved, Yatu, deceased, born of Tita, deceased.","credit_line":"Purchased with funds provided by Henry H. Getty and Charles L. Hutchinson","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"Thomas George Allen, A Handbook of the Egyptian Collection (Art Institute of Chicago\/University of Chicago Press, 1923), pp. 37-40 (ill.), 91 n.\n\nJarom\u00edr M\u00e1lek, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs, and Paintings. VIII: Objects of Provenance Not Known. Part 3. Stelae (Early Dynastic Period to Dynasty XVII) (Griffith Institute, Oxford, 2007), p. 139 no. 803-028-560.\n\nAshley Arico,\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/articles\/824\/reading-ancient-egyptian-art-a-curator-answers-common-questions\"><em>Reading Ancient Egyptian Art: A Curator Answers Common Questions,<\/em><\/a>\u201d Art Institute of Chicago ARTicle, July 14, 2020.\n\nEmily Teeter, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53269\/9780865593213\/23\"><em>\u201cCat. 8 Stela of Amenemhat and Yatu,\u201d<\/em><\/a> in Ancient Egyptian Art at the Art Institute of Chicago by Emily Teeter and Ashley F. Arico, ed. 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