Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology

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Mar.6] SOCIETYOF BIBLICAL ARCHEOLOGY. [1894.

EGYPTIAN MONUMENTSAT DORPAT.

By Dr. A. Wiedemann.

By the kindness of a young archaeologistof Dorpat, livingactually
at Bonn, Mr. Hans Dragendorff,I obtained paper-castsof a series
of inscriptions preservedin the Museum of Dorpat Themonu
ments were collected by Otto Friedrich von Richterduring his
travels in the East, andgivenafterhis death by his father to the
Museum.*


  1. Stela roundedat the top; 49 centimetres high, 32 centimetres
    large,limestone; at the top three divinitiesare sitting. Firstly,a
    hawk-headedgod,crownedwithm , the ?Q in the middle ; the god


holdsin the left hand T , in the right one .¥-. Behindhima human-
headedgoddesswith\fandjQ on the head, holdingup her hands
in a speaking posture. Beforethe god and looking at him a goddess
bearingon her head the symbol of the two curved linesI I similar to
that representedin Leps., D. Ill, 34a ; a symbol, whichstanding
on a disk or on half a disk, formsan ideogramm for tnut, "mother"
(in the list of Levi, No. 1 174), in the right handj], in the left .¥•.

Inscriptionin vertical linesabovethe god ,*~w,^£\ -$ ^37 In \ Jfi

-77-°^?I O £ J ^ 3 iTV abovehis companion <=>( jj s=^

above the third personage a A.A.~~~"J7n I <=r>

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Belowthisrepresentation seven personsare walking in a position
of adoration to the left ; above their names in vertical lines: —

(r) ^^^^JjP^t^V&^O*) -an.



  • Cf. O. Fr. v. Richter, " Wallfahrten im Morgenlande. " Berlin, 1822,p. X
    and 619 sqq.
    *5°

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