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  2. Stele - Wikipedia

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    The most famous example of an inscribed stela leading to increased understanding is the Rosetta Stone, which led to the breakthrough allowing Egyptian hieroglyphs to be read. An informative stele of Tiglath-Pileser III is preserved in the British Museum .

  3. Inventory Stela - Wikipedia

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    The Inventory Stela (also known as Stela of Khufu's Daughter) is an ancient Egyptian commemorative tablet dating to the 26th Dynasty (c. 670 BC). It was found in Giza during the 19th century. The stela presents a list of 22 divine statues owned by a Temple of Isis, and goes on to claim that the temple existed since before the time of Khufu (c ...

  4. Category:Ancient Egyptian stelas - Wikipedia

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  5. Famine Stela - Wikipedia

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    The Famine Stela is an inscription written in Egyptian hieroglyphs located on Sehel Island in the Nile near Aswan in Egypt, which tells of a seven-year period of drought and famine during the reign of pharaoh Djoser of the Third Dynasty. It is thought that the stele was inscribed during the Ptolemaic Kingdom, which ruled from 332 to 31 BC.

  6. Merneptah Stele - Wikipedia

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    The stele was found in Merneptah's funerary chapel in Thebes, the ancient Egyptian capital on the west bank of the Nile. On the opposite bank is the Temple of Karnak, where a fragmentary copy was found.

  7. Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae - Wikipedia

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    The Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae is an online dictionary and text corpus of the Egyptian language developed by the Research Centre for Primary Sources of the Ancient World at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) in Berlin, Germany. Intended to be a complete documentation of the Egyptian lexicon, it encompasses varied ...

  8. Ikhernofret Stela - Wikipedia

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    The Ikhernofret Stela (Berlin Museum ref 1204) is an ancient Egyptian stela dated to the Middle Kingdom and is notable for its veiled description of how the mysteries of the deity Osiris were carried out in Abydos. The stela is 100 cm high and made of limestone. Osiris is depicted standing under a winged sun disk facing Senusret III. The text ...

  9. Slab stela - Wikipedia

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    Slab stela of Nefertiabet. A slab stela [citation needed] is a horizontally oriented stela from ancient Egypt. Some of the earliest tablets from mid- to late-3rd millennium BC were painted slab stelas. A small number of Ancient Egyptian dignitaries or their wives had a slab stela.