This stela belongs to the “painter of outlines” and sculptor Qen, who lived during the reign of Ramesses III (1279 – 1213 BC). It offers a vivid image of the funerals celebrated for him in front of his funerary chapel by his sons Meryre and Huy, who are performing the “ceremony of the Opening of the Mouth”, and by his daughter Taqri, depicted in her grief over the loss of her father. The chapel is sufficiently detailed to distinguish the entrance door, the brick pyramid surmounting the structure, the pyramidion and the niche on the pyramid’s façade, which bore a stela or stela-bearing statue with the hymn to the sun.
