Abstract

Among the finds recovered during the course of the excavations which the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania carried out at the site of Memphis between 1915 and 1923 were more than 205 intact and fragmentary inscribed stone stelae, statues, lintels, and bits of relief, the majority of which are still unpublished.1 While most of these possess relatively little artistic merit, nevertheless, both individually and as a group they are of some importance and no little interest both for the light which they may shed on popular religion in New Kingdom and later Memphis2 for the names and titles of the people recorded upon them which were previously unknown and unattested3 and for new monuments

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