Amenemope stele

Amenemope's rock stele

The Amenemope stele is an ancient Egyptian rock stele with a hieroglyphic inscription that goes back to Amenemope (Jmn-m-Jp.t) , the viceroy of Cush under Seti I and possibly Ramses II. It comes from the steep southern mountain wall of the castle hill from Kasr Ibrim , the former Pedeme or Primis , on the eastern bank of the Nile about 180 kilometers southwest of Aswan . Before the site was flooded by Lake Nasser , the reservoir of the Aswan High Dam , the rock stele was sawn out of the mountain in four parts in the 1960s and put together in the same place after storage on the island of New Kalabsha in 2000 and 2001 and placed next to the chapel of Dedun .

description

Approximate coordinates of the original location: 22 ° 39 '  N , 32 ° 0'  E

Installation site next to the late Ptolemaic Chapel of Dedun

The island of Neu-Kalabsha is an open-air museum of relocated monuments that were saved from flooding by Lake Nasser in the 1960s. The temples, chapels and steles that have been moved here come from different times in ancient Egypt. The location of the Amenemope stele next to the late Ptolemaic Chapel of Dedun therefore has no temporal or spatial reference. In contrast, the rock temple Bet el-Wali , which was rebuilt 140 meters northwest of the stele, was built around the same time. Viceroy Amenemope is named and represented several times in it.

The 4.25 meter wide and 3.5 meter high Amenemope stele with its twelve-line hieroglyphic inscription dates from the 19th Dynasty of the New Kingdom . The rock stele serving to glorify the king shows in its image field (the upper part of which has been destroyed) Seti I stabbing an enemy with his lance in front of the god Amun standing on a pedestal to his left . The king's law is one-covered with two horses Chariot , seems descended from the Seti. The founder of the inscription, Amenemope, kneels in adoration in the lower left area of ​​the rock stele. To the right of him three vertical columns name his name and his official title. The twelve horizontal lines of the inscription praise Seti I's victories over the Nubians.

literature

• Ricardo A. Caminos: Shrines & Rock Inscriptions of Ibrim . Egypt Exploration Society, London 1968, ISBN 978-0-901212-12-2 , pp. 83-90 .
• Joachim Willeitner : Abu Simbel and the temples of Lake Nasser. The archaeological guide . von Zabern , Darmstadt / Mainz 2012, ISBN 978-3-8053-4457-9 , The Amenemope Stele, p. 37-38 . ( Digital version of the table of contents).

Web links

Commons : Amenemope Stele  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Stèle de Qasr Ibrim. Projet Rosette, 2016, accessed February 20, 2016 (French). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Qasr Ibrim. www.archaeologywordsmith.com, accessed August 26, 2015 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Joachim Willeitner : Abu Simbel and the temples of Lake Nasser. The archaeological guide . von Zabern , Darmstadt / Mainz 2012, ISBN 978-3-8053-4457-9 , The Amenemope Stele, p. 37-38 .
3. ^ Officials - Sethos I. -. Amenemope (Jmun-m-Jp.t) - Viceroy of Kush -. www.nefershapiland.de, April 11, 2013, accessed on August 27, 2015 . 

Coordinates: 23 ° 57 '38.3 "  N , 32 ° 52' 0.7"  E