THREE MIDDLE KINGDOM STELAE AT THE GRAND EGYPTIAN MUSEUM GIZA (GEM 14255, 15090 AND 3656) | ||||
Shedet | ||||
Article 10, Volume 9, Issue 9, 2022, Page 171-192 PDF (1.02 MB) | ||||
Document Type: research articles | ||||
DOI: 10.21608/shedet.2022.248052 | ||||
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Authors | ||||
Adel Ahmed Zine Al-Abedine1; Nahla EL-Sayed2 | ||||
1Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of Tanta | ||||
2Faculty of Arts, University of Tanta, Egypt | ||||
Abstract | ||||
This paper studies three stelae which came from Abydos. They are preserved at Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza (GEM 14255, 15090and 3656). These stelae were previously kept in the Egyptian Museum Cairo (CGC 20031, 20027and 20556). These stelae I investigate the style, the images, the names and the titles of the owners, this article also aim to examine the meaning of their names and titles. Furthermore, it aims to transcribe, translate and comment on their epigraphical features. The first stela belongs to a person who called Djaty and is dated to late Twelfth Dynasty based on artistic style, orthographic and paleographic features, The of Djaf is a typical late early Thirteenth Dynasty. Titi owns the third stela and is dated to the Thirteenth Dynasty. | ||||
Keywords | ||||
Middle Kingdom; Djaty; Djaf; Titi; Stela; Late Twelfth Dynasty; Early Thirteenth Dynasty | ||||
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