The stele in the Berlin museum
The stele in the Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum (CIS II 122)

The Saqqara Aramaic Stele is an Egyptian-Aramaic stele found in Saqqara in 1877.[1]

It was held in the Neues Museum in Berlin which was destroyed during World War 2.[2][3]

The Aramaic inscription is known as KAI 267, CIS II 122 and TAD C20.3. Its content according to KAI is:

בריך אבה בר חור ואחתבו ברת עדיה כל 2 זי חסתמח קריתא
קדם אוסרי אלהא אבסלי בר אבה אמה אחתבו
כן אמר בשנת 4 ירח מחיר חשיארש מלכא בזי מ[לכיא]
ביד פמנ[...]

References

  1. Lepsius, Karl Richard (1877). "Eine Aegyptisch - Aramäische Stele". Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde. 15: 127–132 and pl. 1.
  2. TM 91158
  3. Funerary Stela From Saqqarah (Berlin Gipsformerei 939 Formerly ÄM 7707 [destroyed WW II]) (2.62)
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