Fragment of Stela of king Djoser
A limestone fragment of a stela of Djoser was found from the chapel of king Djoser at Heliopolis. It depicts a seated god wearing a long wig and a divine beard. The powerful face shows Djoser as he is depicted at Saqqara. The hieroglyphic for “b”, which appears above the figure and is probably the last sign of his name, suggests this is the god named Geb. A column of hieroglyph records the deity’s wishes for pharaoh Djoser.
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Inscriptions on the Monument
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Transliteration
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di anx dD wAs Awt-ib Dt
Translation
I give life, stability, dominion, and happiness eternally.
Dorothea Arnold, Christiane Ziegler, Catherine Roehrig, Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids By Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1999), 175-176. |