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Stela of the workman Ipuy (Wien KHM 8390)(Object ID 7EAOTU7WTFCZPD3ON2TWFHKTB4)

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Persistent ID: 7EAOTU7WTFCZPD3ON2TWFHKTB4
Persistent URL: https://thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/object/7EAOTU7WTFCZPD3ON2TWFHKTB4

Data type: Object

Object type: Stele

Materials: Kalkstein

Dimensions (H×W(×D)): 34+x × 26 × 7.6 cm

Production technique: geschnitzt

Condition: fragmentarisch

  • Finding place

    • westliches Ufer
      Certainty: probable
      Is the original place of use: Yes
      Comment on this place: The provenance of this small, badly damaged stela is unknown, although the owner’s title places him at Deir el-Medina.

Current location

Dating: 19. Dynastie  –  20. Dynastie

Comment on dating:

  • Ipuy is a common name in the village of Deir el-Medina and does not help to narrow down the date: Satzinger (1985, 254) suggests he might be the owner of TT217, dating to the reign of Ramesses II.

Description

  • The stela is inscribed on both front and rear surfaces with a hymn to Hathor which includes the narration of the individual’s encounter with the goddess in a dream. The narrative motif of a divinely inspired dream, which is first attested in eighteenth dynasty royal inscriptions (Szpakowska 2003, 47–52), is also known from another Ramessid biography in the tomb of Djehutyemheb (KRI VII, 153, 6–154, 7; Assmann 1978; 1999). The dream episode is inscribed in the lower register on the front, beneath a fragmentary raised relief scene of Ipuy kneeling before Hathor. Only the feet of the goddess, the pillar of her shrine, the offering table, and Ipuy’s front foot and the corner of his kilt are visible. He is depicted again in the lower register in sunk relief, kneeling and adoring to the right of the inscription. The continuation of the hymn fills the back of the stela. At least 4 columns are lost.

Owner: Privatperson

Comment on cultural context

  • cultural context: commemorative

Bibliography

  • – Satzinger, Helmut 1985. Zwei Wiener Objekte mit bemerkenswerten Inschriften. In Posener-Kriéger, Paule (ed.), Mélanges Gamal eddin Mokhtar, vol. 2 (BdE 97/2). Le Caire, 249-254 and pl. Ia-b [P,H,Ü,K]
  • – Szpakowska, Kasia 2003. Behind closed eyes: dreams and nightmares in ancient Egypt. Swansea, 135-137, 194-195 [Ü]
  • Other bibliographical references:
  • – Assmann, Jan 1978. Eine Traumoffenbarung der Göttin Hathor: Zeugnisse "Persönlicher Frömmigkeit" in thebanischen Privatgräbern der Ramessidenzeit. Revue d'égyptologie 30, 22-50 [K]
  • – Assmann, Jan 1999. Ägyptische Hymnen und Gebete: übersetzt, kommentiert und eingeleitet, 2nd rev. and extended ed. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis ([Sonderband]). Freiburg / Göttingen [K]
  • – Gerhards, Simone 2021. Konzepte von Müdigkeit und Schlaf im alten Ägypten. Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur, Beihefte 23. Hamburg [K]

File protocol

  • – Elizabeth Frood, Transcription, translation, metadata, notes (data entered by P. Dils), 11.11.2022
  • – Peter Dils, Lemmatisation and grammatical encoding according to the transcription and translation by Frood; hieroglyphic encoding based on photographs, 13.11.2022

Author(s): Elizabeth Frood; with contributions by: Peter Dils
Data file created: 11/12/2022, latest revision: 11/13/2022
Editorial state: Verified

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(Full citation)
Elizabeth Frood, with contributions by Peter Dils, "Stela of the workman Ipuy (Wien KHM 8390)" (Object ID 7EAOTU7WTFCZPD3ON2TWFHKTB4) <https://thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/object/7EAOTU7WTFCZPD3ON2TWFHKTB4>, in: Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 7/26/2023, ed. by Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning on behalf of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils on behalf of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig (accessed: xx.xx.20xx)
(Short citation)
https://thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/object/7EAOTU7WTFCZPD3ON2TWFHKTB4, in: Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (accessed: xx.xx.20xx)