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Fontes Historiae Nubiorum II
(141) sete„, tkk,„ ahotoil (142) qorte,„ drteyose (143) 1„, ek edeto„,
nhror (144) wide 1„, ekedeto,„
k(145)di,„ stebese,„ drit(146)ro„, shse li,„ hol *k (147) leb„, as
hdose,„ te(148)dd„,
qo leb„, ahro (149) te wideb wit,„ eked (150) bto,„
krte dse,„ hrp(151)he sem lo 1„, tkto
(152) qorte„, dhe leb„, wi (153) debese„, aroqi*t(154)m,„ tdhseii,„ wer(155)k„,
seb„, erewese 1*43(156) se wi„, aw„, i[...]*bh„,
(157) dqni,„ ibtd[...]r(158)q„, hrw„, [...1*ki„,
a*to (159) sedew„, *a*to mlo (160) qes„, hol k„,
seb„, (161) eqe*t*h[...]
Comments
The granite stela, which measures 158 cm (height) x 53 cm (width) x 27 cm
(depth), was inscribed on its recto and verso and its right and left sides with a
Meroitic text in the Meroitic cursive script in horizontal lines divided by horizontal
incisions. The front side of the lunette is decorated with the winged
sundisc which is flanked by two uraei wearing the Red (left) and the White
(right) crowns and which protects Tatiyidamani's cartouche (see (150) 3). Beneath
the winged sundisc and the cartouche, there is a double scene which is
divided from the text of the stela by a frieze of four bound prisoners flanking
four bows. While the winged sundisc and the prisoner frieze are executed in a
flat sunk relief, the main scene is incised, except for one of the Amiln figures
(left scene half) which is rendered in a flat sunk relief too, thus indicating that
the rest of the lunette relief remained unfinished. The scene in the left half of
the lunette shows the King offering wine and a necklace to the ram-headed
Amfin who is accompanied by Mut. The King wears the Kushite skullcapcrown,
a diadem with two uraei (wearing the Red and White Crowns) and
streamers (see Török 1987, 4 ff.), a short robe with a fringed shawl and a tasselled
cord across his right shoulder (see Török 1990), as well as armlets,
bracelets, and sandals. In the right half of the lunette he is represented in the
company of a lion and slaying an enemy who is at the same time also attacked
by the lion. They are in the presence of the ram-headed Amûn, who holds a
was-scepter in his left and extends towards the King a scepter in the shape of a
snake crowned with a sundisc (for this scepter type, associated with Rê in his
night journey, see Kaplony 1986, 1375 with note 30). In this scene the King is
shown wearing a collar necklace, the tripartite Meroitic royal costume (cf.
Török 1990) and the Kushite skullcap-crown with diadem and one uraeus
crowned with the sundisc (?) and streamers, as well as armlets, bracelets, and
sandals. In a remarkable manner and style, also the verso of the lunette is decorated
with a figure of Tariyidamani in raised relief facing right and standing on
a prisoner; he is flanked by the incised figures of the human-headed Ami'm of
Thebes (left) and the ram-headed Amån of Napata who are touching his el
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