Nubayrah Stele

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Nubayrah Stele
Combined image of two photographic plates depicting the Nubayrah stele from Ahmed Kamal's catalogue
MaterialLimestone
Size1.27 m x 0.51 m
WritingAncient Egyptian hieroglyphs

The Nubayrah Stele is a mutilated copy of the

Temple of Philae
, but overwritten in many places, by scenes, or damaged.

The limestone stele is rounded at the top, is 4 feet 2 inches (1.27 m) high, and 1 foot 8 inches (0.51 m) wide.'

Nile River; the town is southwest of Damanhur. The original "Nubayrah" was close to Damanhur.[2]

The Nubayrah Stele is located in the Egyptian Museum, no. 5576.[3]

Publication history

The hieroglyph text was published, in the 1800s and early 1900s in five resources:[4]

  1. Boulaq-(now Egyptian Museum
    ) et L'inscription de Rosette", in Recueil de travaux, Paris, 1885, vol vi, pp 1-20.
  2. Baillet, Le décret de Memphis et les inscriptiones de Rosette et de Damanhour, Paris, 1905.
  3. Ahmed Kamal (Egyptologist), Catalogue générale des antiquités égyptiennes, No. 22188, with photographic reproduction.
  4. Kurt Heinrich Sethe
    , Urkunden, iv, p. 169. (best and complete transcripts)
  5. Spiegelberg, Kanopus und Memphis (Rosettan), Heidelberg, 1922. (best and complete transcripts)

See also

References

  1. ^ Budge, (1989), 1929. The Rosetta Stone. p. 103.
  2. ^ Budge, (1989), 1929. p. 103.
  3. ^ Full Text of the Rosetta Stone, (British Museum). (supplemental sources of text)[1]
  4. ^ Budge, (1989), 1929. p. 103.
  • Budge, 1929, (1989). The Rosetta Stone,
    ISBN 0-486-26163-8
    )
  • Kamal, Ahmed, Stèles ptolémaiques et romaines, two volumes, Le Caire, 1904–1905, (Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire).

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