Abstract
The monument discussed here may have been the pedestal of a stela, but is only recorded in copies made by Hay and Wilkinson early in the last century (a small fragment which used to be in Berlin is now lost). Sipair was an ‘Overseer of the treasury’, probably under Amosis. His presumed tomb at Saqqâra would be the earliest New-Kingdom tomb known in the area. One of Sipair's epithets refers to chariotry, and the hieroglyph used in it is the earliest representation of a horse from ancient Egypt. Memphite examples of titles connected with chariotry are listed, and Second Intermediate Period and early Eighteenth Dynasty evidence from the Memphite area reviewed.
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