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Provenance and Date of the Stela of Amun-Wosre (JEA 51, 63-68) Author(s): William Kelly Simpson Source: The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 52 (Dec., 1966), p. 174 Published by: Egypt Exploration Society Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3855831 Accessed: 02/04/2010 06:59
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datival n being well attested.' Once this is recognized, it becomes necessaryto translatethus:
'The foreigner(s) were peacefully disposed towards (me) on the West and East of Wawat until I brought safely back (my) troop of soldiers.' Not only is a rendering 'interpreter' excluded here, but the r.(w) were not connected with the Egyptians in any way. The term applies rather to people

were distinguished fromthe Nhsy 'Nubians'. living in the West and East of Wawat,who apparently
The passage is not conclusive, but might imply that the c;w were the settled population of the Nubian Nile valley, as contrasted with the Nhsy in the mountain country. It seems that Fischer himself lost confidence in his argument against my rendering 'foreigners' or 'foreign (mercenary) troops' in the title imy-r rwv. At the end of his argument he proposes: 'the safest conclusion is that the rw w were, in most cases, Egyptianized foreigners, who were used not only as interpreters but as scouts, spies, agents, couriers and foremen of mercenaries'. He thus comes close himself to my rendering 'foreigner'. HANSGOEDICKE

Provenance and date of the stela of Amun-wosre (JEA 51, 63-68)


the kindness of Mrs. Josephine H. Fisher I had the opportunity of publishing the upper THROUGH of a stela owned by her in the last volume of the Journal. Mr. Barry Kemp of Cambridge part has been able to supply information as to its provenance and to suggest a reading of now University

it to me. Mr. Kemp his thoughtfulness in communicating the firstcartouche. I wish to acknowledge
informs me that the stela derives from the excavations at Abydos conducted by Professor John Garstang on behalf of the Liverpool Institute of Archaeology in I908. It was found as part of the contents of a tomb(?) designated as 368 A '07, the location of which was probably on the local west of the Shunet el-Zebib and 'Middle Fort'. The negative in the files of the School of Archaeology and Oriental Studies bears the number A I77. Many of the finds were assigned to the individuals who contributed to the costs of the excavations, and as a result the stela eventually found its way to the United States without any indication of its origin.

On the basisof the earlierphoto Mr. Kemp has readthe tracesof the end of the firstcartoucheas
mrtt: , the sickle (U i) above the t (X i), with the rear part of the platform (Aa 8) inside the curve of the sickle. This can only represent the prenomen of Ammenemes III, Ny-m;rt-Rr, if

the readingis correct. Mr. Peck has examinedthe originalin Detroit and favoursa readingwith
the sickle, although he rejects the t beneath it. The consequences of this later date are several. The office of imy-r smcwmay have been reinstituted as part of the administrative reforms attendant upon the curbing of the nomarchs under Sesostris III instead of being a continuation of the office in the latter part of the Eleventh Dynasty and the beginning of the Twelfth Dynasty. Secondly, the palaeographical points indicative of a date early in the Twelfth Dynasty, mainly the variations of the book-roll discussed by Schenkel, with single or double tie, placed horizontally or vertically, would have to be extended to the end of the dynasty and can no longer be regarded as absolute chronological criteria. The stela gives the

impressionthat it follows an earliermodel. A possible analogylies in the stela of Montuhotpeof


the reign of Sesostris I (CCG 20539) and the similar stela of Sehetepibre<of the reign of Ammenemes

III (CCG 20538). Pyramid names

WILLIAM KELLY SIMPSON

THE name of the pyramid of Ammenemes I, Imn-m-h.zt k;-nfr, is translated by Gardiner 'The pyramid, Ammenemes is high and beautiful'.2 But surely the adjectives refer to the pyramid, not the
I Cf. Cairo 20530; Sethe, Ubersetzungund Kommentar der altdgyptischen Pyramidentexte, 1II, 53. For the 2 Eg. Gr.3, 495. construction, cf. Edel, Altdgyptische Grammatik, ? 588.

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