![]() On the right of the bull's image May you live! May your On the left of the bull's image Oh Osiris-Buchis, great god, lord of the Bucheum! He brings you your ba, it/he will not be far from you Under the bull's image 1 Year 33, 2 under his majesty the king of Upper and Lower Egypt, lord of the two lands Diocletian, son of Re, lord of crowns, Caesar. 3 The lord of the gods, who created the goddesses, arrived on earth at Thebes, Tai-Ist was 4 his mother. He was led to Hermonthis which rejoiced seeing him. In the year 39 an abode was set up for him 5 with great festivity in the region of /// of Re, his beautiful town. In the year 6 57, month 3 of the season of Akhet, on day 8 at 7 o'clock of the day, his ba 7 entered [the heaven] /// his reign lasted 24 years, (?) months, 20 days and 7 hours 8 /// may he give you eternal life, all permanence, all power, all force as well as all joy like Re, for eternity!
Source: Jean-Claude Grenier, La stèle funéraire du dernier taureau Bouchis, BIFAO 38 (1983), pp.197-208
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Footnotes: ![]() ![]() The sacking of the Bucheum may have occurred under Theodosius I., 379-395 CE, when pagan cults were proscribed. (Daly 1998) On the face of this stela Christian inscriptions were made, using red paint.(Grenier 1983) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bibliography: Stanley Meyer Burstein, The Reign of Cleopatra, Greenwood Press 2004, p.16 M. W. Daly, Carl F. Petry, The Cambridge History of Egypt, Cambridge University Press 1998, p.28 David Frankfurter, Religion in Roman Egypt: Assimilation and Resistance, Princeton University Press 1998, p.72 Jean-Claude Grenier, La stèle funéraire du dernier taureau Bouchis, BIFAO 38 (1983), pp.197-208 |
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