page_title: Hamadab Stela
hierarchical_section_title: Hamadab Stela
caption_attribution_description: English: Hamadab Stela in the British Museum
context_page_description: The Hamadab Stela is a colossal sandstone stela found at Hamadab just south of the ancient site of Meroë in Sudan. Now kept at the British Museum, the significance of the stela resides in the fact that it is inscribed with one of the longest known texts in the Meroitic script.
context_section_description: The Hamadab Stela is a colossal sandstone stela found at Hamadab just south of the ancient site of Meroë in Sudan. Now kept at the British Museum, the significance of the stela resides in the fact that it is inscribed with one of the longest known texts in the Meroitic script.
caption: Hamadab Stela
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