Abstract
The three stelae, kept today in different museums (the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (E.SS.40); the British Museum, London (EA 638); and the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (31275)), form a very peculiar and somewhat bizarre group of objects. Indeed, the Field Museum stela was initially even considered a forgery. However, this seems not to be the case: the three stelae share many similarities in terms of style, iconography, epigraphy, as well as size and appearance. These similarities suggest that they were made at approximately the same time and in the same workshop. Their individual, unique style points to Abydos as the place of their origin.
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