Drawing of a Coptic Saint
Late Antique
Like most sites in the Theban necropolis, the tomb of Nespekashuty underwent repeated reuse and repurposing through the centuries. Nespekashuty's seventh century BC tomb itself had reused the courtyard and causeway of an early 11th Dynasty (ca. 2030 BC) tomb. And this block belongs to a Late Antique phase of reuse in connection with the spread of Coptic Christian monks and ascetics in Western Thebes in the 6th-7th centuries AD.
On the left side of the block is a drawing of the head of a Coptic saint in red paint, on the right a pillar and staircase. Scratched over the staircase is a fish.
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