Les stèles de l'an 3 d'Aspelta
By: Dominique Valbelle; avec une annexe de Claude Rilly
Contributors: Rilly, Claude
Series: Bibliothèque d'etude -- 154; IF -- 1078
Publisher: Institut français d'archéologie orientale
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Le Caire
Language: fre
Number of pages: 117
ISBN-13: 9782724706185
Subjects: Antiquities; Stele (Archaeology); Nabataean Inscriptions; Nabataeans
Other titles: Stèles de l'an trois d'Aspelta
Description: "A new stele dated Year III of Aspelta was discovered one fragment after another between 1999 and 2007 on the site of Dukki Gel (Pnubs), one kilometre north of Kerma. What started as archaeological research turned into a police investigation when the largest fragment was confiscated from a Sudanese man who had sent a copy of the text to the Museum of Khartoum to enquire about the potential commercial value of the object in his possession. Five fragments constituting the main part of the upper and median sections of the stele could thus be reassembled, along with two fragments of the lower rim. The scarce number of Napatean inscribed monuments known to us makes every new discover likely to shed entirely new light on this very specific period when the Kushite kings ceased to rule over Egypt but kept close cultural relationships with it beyond the now interrupted political links. The date of the stele - Year III, 1st month of Winter, the 12th - places it twenty days after the stele from Sanam, downstream of the 4th cataract, now in the Louvre Museum (C 250 = E 6209) which is dated Year III, 3rd month of the akhet season, the 22nd day. The latter commemorated the visit to the temple of Amun-Ra Bull of Nubia by a delegation sent by the king to replace the sistrum player of the temple. Reading the inscription of stele from Dukki Gel shows that most members of the delegation of the Sanam stele are still mentioned here, although important redactional discrepancies are to found between the two texts. A comparison of the two inscriptions lets us establish certain orthographic rules followed by the scribe of each stele, one with an Egyptian training while the other one seems to have been influenced by a specific local culture, which the Dukki Gel stele contributes to reveal."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-97) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: La stèle Louvre C 257 (E 6209). La scène du cintre ; L'inscription.; title: La stèle de Doukki Gel. La scène du cintre ; L'inscription.; title: Mise en parallèle des deux stèle. Les scènes des cintres ; Date et titulature ; La phrase introductive ; Les membres des deux dèlègations ; La venue aux temples ; L'objet de la visite ; Le clergé de chacun des deux temples.; title: La représentation institutionnelle dans les délégations. Les directeurs des choses scellées de domaines royaux ; Les autres dignitaires.; title: Les anthroponymes. Les noms égyptiens ; Les noms kouchites incluant le nom d'Amon ou celui d'Horus ; Les noms entièrement kouchites.; title: Le contexte historique. La gestion des temples d'Amon durant l'époque napatéenne ; La famille royale et l'exercice des cultes ; Le circonstances de l'érection des deux stèles ; La destruction de la stèle de Doukki Gel.; title: Paléographic comparée des deux stèles. Tableau ; Commentaire.; title: Annexe: L'apport des deux stèles à notre connaissance de l'écriture en hiéroglyphes égyptiens des anthroponymes et toponymes napatéens. Les anthroponymes égyptiens et locaux chez les Kouchites ; L'écriture syllabique dans les stèles du Louvre et de Doukki Gel ; L'utilisation de déterminatifs dans la transcription de mots méroïtiques ; La présence d'un phonème /h/ en ancien méroïtique.