Stela of Senusret Before an Offering Table

Senusret, the man standing at the left of this stone with his arms at his sides, held the title of steward, the manager of a household or an estate. In front of him rises a table heaped with offerings, and above it the hieroglyphs ask Osiris Khentyimentyu, the god of the dead worshipped at Abydos, to provide for him. The rest of the inscription is a family roll. According to the Louvre's list of names, his father was Nebirraou and his mother Hetepet, and her name comes back again and again, after his brothers Imeny and Intef and his sisters Sathathor and Senetaamet, each of them recorded as a child of Hetepet. One sister is listed with the same name as her brother, Senusret, the name of several kings of the dynasty. Two grandmothers are there too, and his wife Satipi, followed by her mother Hepyou, so the stela also remembers his mother-in-law.

The Louvre dates the stone by its style, with a question mark, to the early 12th Dynasty. It belongs to the museum's old holdings and was entered in the inventory in 1857, its sunk relief still touched with red and green paint, and in 2022 it appeared in a children's book on hieroglyphs published by the Louvre.