The Stela of Ahmose the Scribe and Reckoner of the Cattle (CG 34049/GEM 5888)
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Amgad Joseph
Summary
This article aims to publish a limestone stela from Saqqara, currently in the Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza (CG 34049/GEM 5888). It was found at Saqqara in January 1862 by Luigi Vassali. It dates to the late Eighteenth Dynasty, reign of King Amenhotep III, New Kingdom, on the basis of its stylistic, iconographic, and epigraphic details. It is extremely well-preserved regarding its scenes and inscriptions, but the colours of the paintings have faded. The stela records a significant title of Ahmose, namely sš ḥsb iḥw n pr imy-r ḫtmt, ‘Scribe and Reckoner of the Cattle of the house of the Overseer of the Seal/ the Chief Treasurer’. The article describes the stela, deals with its individual scenes, inscriptions, idiosyncrasies, iconographic, phraseological, provincial, and genealogical criteria, and focuses on the significant titles and offices of its individuals. The publication of this stela is an addition to the corpus of stelae from the Saqqara necropolis during the late Eighteenth Dynasty.
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- Titelseiten
- Irmtraut Munro
- Instruments of Crime in Tomb Robbery Papyri
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- CT 335 on the Head Side of Inner Coffin A7A From Qubbet el-Hawa (QH31/15/S5/UE21/30)
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- A Mysterious Papyrus of the Roman Period from Athribis (Papyrus SH 389)
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- Le cercueil de Padiousir fils de Pahep
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