دراسة أثرية لكتلة حجرية من عهد الملك رمسيس الثالث

Abstract EN

Archaeological Study of a Block Stone from the Reign of
the King Ramses III

This research tackles a block of limestone found at the village of Shanshor - Ashmoun in Menoufia Governorate.

It is kept at the museum storage in Tal Al-Yahodia, Kafr Al-Shobak in Qalyubia Governorate.

It contains nine horizontal lines of sunken hieroglyphic inscription.

This study aims to publish, copy, translate and make comments on its hieroglyphic texts.

The study will specify the type of object that may represent part of a gift or endowment stela which was set up by King Ramses III to allocate a plot of agricultural land to the deity Ra's property.

Then clarify the historical value of the region the fourth, which used to occupy large parts of the Governorate of Menoufia, where only a few monuments dating to the era of King Ramses III were revealed, despite several monuments in the Delta.

This paper looks at the cultural value, including important titles used in the local administration's inscription during the New Kingdom, such as “supervisor of the city of Khenti Nefert”; which may indicate the block stone's original location before it was transferred to the village of Shanshor.

Unfortunately, the block stone was found by chance, not by excavations or archaeological surveys, and thus became very problematic due to the ence of the archaeological context.