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    Hieroglyphic Texts F R o M Egyptian Stelae-, Part 12, Edited B y M.L. Bierbrier, British Museum Press

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    This document summarizes a stela from the Ramesside period in Egypt. The round-topped stela contains two registers with sunk relief carvings and inscribed texts. The upper register depicts the ram-headed god Amun-Re enthroned with offerings and the goddess Wadjets in the form of a serpent wrapped around a lotus flower. The lower register contains eight columns of text with a prayer to the two gods on behalf of Pennefru, the guardian of the Place of Truth. Scholars have noted peculiarities in the inscription including an inverted letter in one of Amun's names that may indicate the guardian's name was inaccurately recorded.

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    This document summarizes a stela from the Ramesside period in Egypt. The round-topped stela contains two registers with sunk relief carvings and inscribed texts. The upper register depicts the ram-headed god Amun-Re enthroned with offerings and the goddess Wadjets in the form of a serpent wrapped around a lotus flower. The lower register contains eight columns of text with a prayer to the two gods on behalf of Pennefru, the guardian of the Place of Truth. Scholars have noted peculiarities in the inscription including an inverted letter in one of Amun's names that may indicate the guardian's name was inaccurately recorded.

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    This document summarizes a stela from the Ramesside period in Egypt. The round-topped stela contains two registers with sunk relief carvings and inscribed texts. The upper register depicts the ram-headed god Amun-Re enthroned with offerings and the goddess Wadjets in the form of a serpent wrapped around a lotus flower. The lower register contains eight columns of text with a prayer to the two gods on behalf of Pennefru, the guardian of the Place of Truth. Scholars have noted peculiarities in the inscription including an inverted letter in one of Amun's names that may indicate the guardian's name was inaccurately recorded.

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    This document summarizes a stela from the Ramesside period in Egypt. The round-topped stela contains two registers with sunk relief carvings and inscribed texts. The upper register depicts the ram-headed god Amun-Re enthroned with offerings and the goddess Wadjets in the form of a serpent wrapped around a lotus flower. The lower register contains eight columns of text with a prayer to the two gods on behalf of Pennefru, the guardian of the Place of Truth. Scholars have noted peculiarities in the inscription including an inverted letter in one of Amun's names that may indicate the guardian's name was inaccurately recorded.

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    The passages provide details about a stela from the Ramesside period depicting religious scenes and a prayer to Amun-Re and Wadjets on behalf of Pennefru, the guardian of the Place of Truth. Specific details about the iconography and hieroglyphic text are given.

    The upper register depicts the ram-headed Amun-Re enthroned with offerings on an altar, and the goddess Wadjets in the form of a serpent entwined around a lotus flower. The lower register contains eight columns of hieroglyphic text with the prayer.

    The stela is made of limestone and measures 31.2 cm high by 21.4 cm wide. It is badly damaged in several places and its surface has gone brown. Traces of red and black paint remain in places. There is also a black nodule of flint embedded in the area of Amun-Re's throne.

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    Texts f r o m Egyptian Stelae-, Part 12,


    edited b y M.L. Bierbrier, British Museum Press

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    -Hieroglyphic

    Texts f r o m Egyptian Stelae-, Part 12,


    edited b y M.L. Bierbrier, British Museum Press

    2. Stela of P(3)-n-nfrw
    Date: Ramesside
    Provenance: Not recorded'
    Dafe of acquisition: 1854 (Valentia collection)'
    Maferiak Limestone
    Dimensions: 31.2 c m h.. 21.4Cm W .

    There are two registers on this round-topped stela


    decorated with scenes in sunk relief and incised texts. In
    the upper register the ram-headed Amen-Re' is enthroned on the right on one side of an altar heaped with
    offerings. The goddess Werethekau in the form of a
    serpent is entwined around a lotus flower on the left side
    ofthe altar. Behind her a small was-sceptre carries a large
    floral bouquet in its arms. In the lower register eight
    columns of text contain a prayer to Amen-Rec and
    Werethekau on behalf of the guardian of the Place of
    Truth Pennefru.
    Cernp has conjectured that the name of this stela is a
    faulty rendering of Penmennefer, who is a well-attested
    guardian under Ramesses 111 (Cernq, Community,
    I 56). Certainly the stela exhibits other pecuIiarities such
    as the inverted iod in the &st reference to Amun in the
    first column of the second register.
    Preservation and colour: The stela is badly gonged in
    several places on the swface which has gone brown.
    There are traces of red paint in the lines between the
    columns of text and on the serpent, the flowers and the
    body and feathers of the headdress of Amen-Re', while
    black paint is visible on the horns of the god. There is a
    black nodule of flint embedded in the area where the
    throne of Amen-Re' is delineated.
    Bibliography: Sculpture Guide (Igoy),143 (no. 506): HT 7, pl. 26;
    Bruy&re.Mert Seger, fig. 93: Porter andMoss. Top. Bibl. I*, ii. 732.
    I.
    2.

    Undoubtedly Deir el-Medina on Internal evidence.


    Presented by A. Lyttleton Annesley.

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