A Ramesside Stela of RA-ma from Deir El-Madina in the Egyptian Museum of Cairo

El-Behairy, Hanaa

doi:10.21608/bcps.2025.438208

A Ramesside Stela of RA-ma from Deir El-Madina in the Egyptian Museum of Cairo

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Hanaa El-Behairy

Higher Institute for Qualitative studies, Heliopolis, Tourism Guidance Department, Egypt

10.21608/bcps.2025.438208

Abstract

This paper deals with studying and republishing a painted limestone stela from Deir el Madina under the number (JE 43567). It is now on display at the Egyptian Museum of Cairo. It was discovered inside the Ptolemaic Temple enclosure by Baraize in 1912 at Deir–el-Madina. It belongs to one of Deir el-Madina’s workmen, RAma. The stela is divided into two registers. The upper register bears a depiction of the lower part of a seated baboon shown squatting over a shrine. The lower register carries a scene of RAma in an adoration gesture in front of four vertical lines of Hieroglyphic inscriptions. The inscriptions refer to the sn-tA rite, which was commonly mentioned on Deir el Madina stelae. This paper aims to study the texts and scenes appeared on the stela. Moreover, it aims to present an analysis of the ‘sn-tA’ phrase, which is preceded by the adoration formula and its connection with ‘Lord of Hermopolis’, Thoth.

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