Unpublished Pyramidal Stone in Beni Suief Museum

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Guidance, hotels and tourism, Fayoum university, fayoum

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The pyramidal shape is associated with the doctrine of the sun. However, the inscriptions on the pyramidal stone depict the deceased either standing or kneeling in worship, possibly in front of the gods Re or Osiris. This research aims to describe the main scene on the pyramidal stone and to transliterate and translate the hieroglyphic inscriptions. The descriptive method was employed to achieve these objectives. The research indicates that the in the tombs of private individuals began to appear at the beginning of the Eighteenth Dynasty. By the Nineteenth Dynasty, however, the pyramidal stone had become commonplace. In the lower part of the pyramidal stone, the owner is depicted in a worshiping posture, reciting titles of Wsir and making an invocation offering to him. The style of the half-tunic worn by the individual (owner) 1r-Htp(w) emerged during the Nineteenth Dynasty. The god "Wsir" is depicted wearing the cloak of the god "PtH" in the form of a mummy, adorned with a mint necklace, during the 18th Dynasty. The Atef crown from this period consists of the white crown of Upper Egypt, flanked on both sides by the feather crown of Lower Egypt, which features two feathers. The Pyramidal stone (case study) likely dates to the 18th Dynasty.

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