| Egyptian Journal of Archeological and Restoration Studies

Authors:
Abou El Maati, M. & Kamel, S.
Egyptology dept., Faculty of Archaeology, Cairo Univ., Giza, Egypt

Abstract:
This paper presents an arch-topped funerary stela preserved in the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM: 14431), (CG. 22081) and (SR10009). It was found in Qubbet El-Hawa in Aswan. It belongs to a person called Ḥr-sA-Ast, dated according to Kamal (CG) to the Ptolemaic period. The study is a publication of the stela to give a detailed description of its scene and to analyze the hier-oglyphic inscriptions to re-date the stelae to the end of the Late period and the beginning of the Ptolemaic period. The stela is in a good state of preservation. The whole stela is engraved in sunk relief, with no traces of color. It is single-faced with two registers; the lunette is conn-ected to the upper register, and it is decorated by the winged sun-disc, with pendant two uraei, while the main scene in the upper register contains a solar bark, standing in front of it is the owner of the stela, giving a prayer to the sun god inside the bark in his different forms. The lower register contains five horizontal lines of inscriptions with the usual offering formula and the names of the owner and his parents

Keywords:
Qubbet el-hawa Funerary stela Ptolemaic period Solar bark Winged sun-disc

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