Stela of the Sailor Huy Worshipping Osiris and the Deified Amenhotep I

Behind Osiris, in the top scene, stands a man who had once been a real king. Amenhotep I, the second ruler of the 18th Dynasty, had been dead for generations when this stone was carved, and here he wears the blue crown and holds the heqa sceptre and the sign of life. After his death he was worshipped as a god, above all on the west bank at Thebes, together with his mother, Queen Ahmose-Nefertari, and the workmen who cut the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings took him as their patron. On this stela he stands with the god of the dead, ready to hear the prayers of a private family.

The man praying to them is Huy, whom the inscription calls a sailor, with two women beside him. The Louvre's list of names includes his wife Papa, and others called Our, Mutnefer, Ab, Bak and Nebet. Below, two seated couples face each other at matching funerary meals while standing figures serve them, and in the bottom register a couple sits on the ground before a table of offerings. The stone is broken, and part of the family went with the missing pieces.