The funerary stele of Maya, the “scribe off the outlines”, arrived in Turin with the Drovetti collection in 1824. It was possibly discovered near the funerary chapel where Schiaparelli was to excavate roughly 80 years later. In the upper portion of the stele, Maya and his wife Tamit pay homage to Osiris and Hator, the gods of the necropolis. In the lower register is a similar, corresponding scene in which Maya and his wife receive food offerings, in their turn, from their many children, in keeping with a principle of reciprocity that is often found inn Egyptian religious thought.
