1 Year 30 of the reign, first month of the season of Peret [???], first day. The great chief of the Libu, [great] chief and commander Rudamen [???] 2 pr-iw-nTr [???] Weseshete, son of Tilpenu, [his mother being ///] her /// [???] [makes] 3 a donation [of a field] of five [???] [aruras] [???] to the prophet of Heka the Child who /// // the palace [???] 4 /// /// /// [So]bek [???], borne [???] by Sekhmet, Tilpenu /// 5 [As to] him who trans[gresses] [???] /// he shall go to [???] the sword of the k[ing]. 6 May he violate his child! His son shall [perish]. As to him who confirms this stela [???], he shall live! |
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![]() The absence of the king's name may be interpreted as an indication of his lack of influence over the The consecration of the sx.t field is a right of the ruler, here performed by Rudamen instead of the king. ![]() Rudamen (2nd from right) wearing a Libyan chief's feather on his head is offering Sakhmet the sx.t field in a basket. Heka the Child is on the far left, naked but for a wesekh collar, holding a nekhakha sceptre, with his finger to his mouth and wearing the childhood lock. |
Jocelyne Berlandini, Une stèle de donation du dynaste libyen Roudamon, BIFAO 78 (1978), pp. 147-163 [1] |
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