A Pious Soldier: Stele Aswan 1057

Abstract

The stele discussed in this article was found by Reisner during the first survey of Nubia, but, apart from a small published photograph, has been neglected. The narrator, a soldier and priest of Isis at Philae named Petiesi, describes his role in the administration of Ptolemaic Nubia, and the rich donations he made to the temples of his native province. The text is partly in hieroglyphic (with unusual writings), partly in demotic, and the stele is iconographically of interest. It also sheds light on religious sentiment in Late Period Philae.

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