Saqqara_Aramaic_Stele

Saqqara Aramaic Stele

Saqqara Aramaic Stele

Egyptian-Aramaic stele

The Saqqara Aramaic Stele is an Egyptian-Aramaic stele found in Saqqara in 1877.[1]

The stele in the Berlin museum
The stele in the Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum (CIS II 122)

It was held in the Neues Museum in Berlin which was destroyed in World War II.[2][3]

The Aramaic inscription is known as KAI 267, CIS II 122 and TAD C20.3. Its content according to KAI is:

בריך אבה בר חור ואחתבו ברת עדיה כל 2 זי חסתמח קריתא
קדם אוסרי אלהא אבסלי בר אבה אמה אחתבו
כן אמר בשנת 4 ירח מחיר חשיארש מלכא בזי מ[לכיא]
ביד פמנ[...]

References

  1. [1]
    Lepsius, Karl Richard (1877). "Eine Aegyptisch - Aramäische Stele". Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde. 15: 127–132 and pl. 1.
  2. [2]
    TM 91158
  3. [3]
    Funerary Stela From Saqqarah (Berlin Gipsformerei 939 Formerly ÄM 7707 [destroyed WW II]) (2.62)
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