Two Unpublished Blocks from The Greco-Roman Period

Abdo, Hussien

doi:10.21608/bcps.2023.331358

Two Unpublished Blocks from The Greco-Roman Period

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Hussien Abdo

Faculty of Archeology- South Valley University - Egypt

10.21608/bcps.2023.331358

Abstract

This article focuses on two unpublished sandstone blocks preserved in the Abu-Elgood Museum store, Luxor. The first block (No. 225) is a sandstone block that is semi-square and unpublished, dating back to the reign of Emperor Augustus. It was not unearthed during any former excavations or archaeological surveys. but it was found in an archaeological seizure at the Luxor Antiquities and Tourism Police Department. It is currently housed in the storeroom of the Abu-Elgood Museum, Luxor. identified by inventory No. 225, Register No. 1. Its provenance and date are undocumented.

The sandstone block had a sunken relief depicting Emperor Augustus offering the White Crown and the Red Crown before the god Horus and the goddess Nephthys, as well as some hieroglyphic writings.

The second block (No. 230) is a fragment of a broken sandstone block. It was also found in an archaeological seizure at the Luxor Antiquities and Tourism Police Department. currently preserved in the Abu-Elgood Museum store, Luxor, identified by inventory No. 230, Register No. 1. Its provenance and date are undocumented. The sandstone block had a sunken relief contained hieroglyphic signs and the remains of three crowns.

In this study, the hieroglyphic texts are meant to be published, copied, translated, commented on, interpreted, and analyzed.

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Abbreviations
- BIFAO = Bulletin de l'institut Francais, d'archéologie orientale, Le Caire.
- GM = Göttinger Miszellen, Göttingen.
- LÄ = Wolfgang Helck, und Eberhard Otto, Lexikon der Ägyptologie, 7 vols, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz 1975.
- LGG = Christian Leitz, Lexikon der Ägyptischen Götter und Götterbezeichnungen, 7 vols, Paris: Peeters, France, 2002.
- OLA = Orientalia lovaniensia analecta. Dép. d’étud. orient., univ. cathol.(Louvain).
- SAK = Studien zur altägyptischen Kultur (Hambourg).
- WB = Adolf Erman, und Hermann Grapow, Wörterbuch Der Äegyptischen Sprache, vols.1-4, (Leipzig: J. Hinrichs, 1926-1931).
- ZÄS = Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde, Leipzig, Berlin.
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