Miniature shrine

A miniature shrine, also referred to in literature as a portable shrine, pocket shrine, or a travel altar, is a small, generally moveable shrine or altar. They vary greatly in size and architectural style, and by which region or culture produced them. History Antiquity Egypt The Ikhernofret stela, housed in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin The Ikhernofret Stela, dated to the Middle Kingdom of Egypt, is the earliest extant literary reference to a portable shrine. The stela is 100 cm high and made of limestone. Osiris is depicted standing under a winged sun disk facing Senwosret III. The text is laid out below Osiris in twenty-four horizontal lines. Underneath the text, Ikhernofret, a 12th dynasty treasurer under Pharaoh Senwosret III, is depicted at an offering table with his family. It reads: I acted as Son, Whom He Loves, for Osiris, First of the Westerners, I adorned the great [...] forever and ever. I made for him a portable shrine, the Bearer-of-Beauty of the First-of-the- Westerners, of gold, silver, lazuli, fragrant woods, carob wood, and meru wood, fashioned the gods belonging to his divine ennead, made their shrines anew. The New Kingdom Gurob Shrine Papyrus is a fragment of a