This modern rubbing reproduces some of the ornate stone reliefs from one of the Wu family’s mortuary shrines, which dates to 147–68 c.e. The relief was located on the back wall of the shrine, as seen in blue in the drawing here. The top two registers narrate stories of exemplary men and women, while at the center of the register below, a pavilion provides the setting for paying homage to an illustrious individual. The large, seated man at the center, here partially damaged, has been variously identified as a ruler, the family patriarch, or the deceased. He receives devotions from the people gathered in the pavilion. Given its emphasis on veneration, this particular relief would have provided a fitting backdrop for the elaborate funerary rituals and ancestor worship that would have taken place at the shrine.