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The Museum of Archaeology of Peking University houses several Egyptian stelae, of which the one presented here is one of the most interesting. They were brought to China by Duan Fang, ambassador of the Chinese emperor in the early 20th century, together with nearly one hundred other antiquities. He may have bought them during his short stay in Egypt, where he visited Port Said and Cairo in the summer of 1906∞∞(1). Round-topped limestone stela with winged sun-disc at the top, from which hang two uraei. The scene in the second register represents a pharaoh with double crown and cartouche offering the hieroglyphic sign for “field” to a lion crouching on a pedestal. To the left and right of the scene are two ws sceptres; that on the left stands on a bottom line, which is set slightly too high. On the lion’s head is a sun disk with a large uraeus. Over the back of the lion stand the hieroglyphs Wsir p my “Osiris the lion”. There are traces of red paint on the legs, arms and chest of the king∞∞(2). The front leg of the pharaoh has apparently been reworked. The name of the pharaoh in the cartouche above his head is damaged towards the end, but the first five signs are clear. and must refer to the name Kleopatra, even though the traces at the end cannot be identified with certainty. Nothing similar is found among the examples of the name Kleopatra in H. GAUTHIER, Livre des rois d’Egypte IV, MIFAO 20 (1916). WILLY CLARYSSE HAYING YAN
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