The Famine Stela, with some carved sections missing.
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Location of the Famine Stela in Egypt
The Famine Stela is an inscription written in Egyptian hieroglyphs located on Sehel Island in the Nile near Aswan in Egypt, which tells of a seven-year period of drought and famine during the reign of pharaoh Djoser of the Third Dynasty. It is thought that the stele was inscribed during the Ptolemaic Kingdom, which ruled from 332 to 31 BC.
The FamineStela is an inscription written in Egyptian hieroglyphs located on Sehel Island in the Nile near Aswan in Egypt, which tells of a seven-year...
known as the FamineStela, located on the island of Sehel, south of Elephantine. The stela recounts a seven-year period of drought and famine during the...
boundary of his kingdom at the First Cataract. An inscription known as the FamineStela and claiming to date to the reign of Djoser, but probably created during...
Upper Egyptian FamineStela, which dates from the Ptolemaic period (305–30 BC), bears an inscription containing a legend about a famine lasting seven years...
carelessness of Late-Egyptian scribes and several blunders of writing in this stela". This sentiment was subsequently built upon by other scholars. According...
from the 1st millennium BC written in Demotic include the story of the FamineStela (set in the Old Kingdom, although written during the Ptolemaic dynasty)...
and Mosaic Law / Ten Commandments. (see Cuneiform law). Tell al-Rimah stela (c. 780 BC) – tells of the exploits of Adad-nirari III, mentioning "Joash...
famous inscriptions that record ancient historical events. One is the FamineStela, which is of Greco-Roman origin, but claims to record events from the...
Syrians; the other, of black granite, was over ten feet high, larger than any stela previously known; the original text commemorated the building achievements...
Elements Menander: Dyskolos Theophrastus: Enquiry into Plants Egyptian: The FamineStela Avestan: Avesta Chinese: Lüshi Chunqiu: Master Lü's Spring and Autumn...
Theban reliefs is the Stela of the Gatekeeper Maati, a limestone stela from the reign of Mentuhotep II, ca. 2051-2030 BCE. In this stela, Maati is seated at...
Title Date Biblical Parallels Memphite Creation 2700 BC Gen 1-2 FamineStela 2700 BC Gen 12:10; 41:1-57 Instructions of Ptah Hotep ~2500 BC Prov 2; 6:1-35;...
single stela from Thebes. In an older study, Jürgen von Beckerath dated Neferhotep III to the end of the 13th Dynasty. In the heavily damaged stela (Cairo...
greatest statues, the Doryphorus (The Spear Bearer) (approximate date). The stela, Demeter, Persephone and Triptolemos, from Eleusis, is made (approximate...
subsequent kings of the twenty-second dynasty. For instance, the Large Dakhla stela is specifically dated to Year 5 of king "Pharaoh Shoshenq, beloved of Amun"...
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