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Egyptian steles (or Stelae, Books of Stone) [9] have been found dating as far back as the First Dynasty of Egypt. These vertical slabs of stone are used as tombstones, for religious usage, and to mark boundaries, [ 10 ] and are most commonly made of limestone and sandstone, or harder kinds of stone such as granite or diorite, but wood was also ...
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.
The Beisan steles are five Ancient Egyptian steles from the period of Seti I and Ramesses II discovered in what was then known as Beisan, Mandatory Palestine by Alan Rowe in the late 1920s and early 1930s. [a] [2] [3] [4]
The Egyptian Stelae in the Levant are the approximately 25 Ancient Egyptian stelae discovered in the Levant, today known as Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine and Jordan. [1] The most notable examples are the Stelae of Nahr el-Kalb and the Beisan steles .
The latest addition to stelae A and B was termed the “Colophon” by Davies. [6] A partial translation of the stelae had also appeared in James Henry Breasted’s Ancient Records published in 1906. [6] An additional stela was discovered by the archeological survey of the Egypt Exploration Society in the season 2005-2006 and it was labeled ...
The Stela of Akhenaten and his family is the name for an altar image in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo which depicts the Pharaoh Akhenaten, his queen Nefertiti, and their three children. The limestone stela with the inventory number JE 44865 is 43.5 × 39 cm in size and was discovered by Ludwig Borchardt in Haoue Q 47 at Tell-el Amarna in 1912. [ 1 ]
Three Egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions are known, [1] all of which bear the cartouche of Ramses II.This was first identified by Karl Richard Lepsius. [13] At least one of these is thought to have been placed during the Pharaoh's first campaign in the Levant, and set the Nahr al-Kalb as the border between Egypt's province of Canaan and the possessions of the Hittites.