The boy commemorated here holds objects that reveal the fusion of Egyptian-Christian and Graeco-Roman religious beliefs in a period when Christianity and pagan religion flourished side by side. Traditionally a Christian symbol, the grapes refer to Christ’s blood and thus his cycle of death and resurrection. Grapes also occur in the symbolism of the Graeco-Egyptian cult of Osiris-Dionysos. The object in the boy’s right hand may be a floral garland, a symbol found on stelai of deceased followers of the goddess Isis. The stele may thus be understood as one representing pagan or Christian belief, or perhaps even a combination of the two.