Stele of Sasatet

The inscription on this stele opens with a date, the first year of King Amenemhat III, who had followed Senusret III on the throne of Middle Kingdom Egypt. It was set up at Abydos by Sasatet, a treasury official whose title the Louvre renders as head of the inner office of the overseer of sealed things. Under a pair of wedjat eyes, the protective eye of the god Horus, four bands of figures sit at funerary meals, and around them runs a crowd of names, most of them given together with the mother's name. Sasatet's own mother, Satkhetyouret, is there, and a harpist and singer called Ita, and a man named Kemau whom the Louvre lists as an astronomer. There is also a servant described as an Asiatic, someone from the lands north-east of Egypt, and his name is Khakaureseneb, which means Khakaure is healthy. Khakaure was the throne name of Senusret III, the king before.