Abstract
A drawing preserved in the Griffith Institute, Oxford, records an early Meroitic relief block which is now lost. It shows a woman's arm and an inscription, and comes from a tomb chapel in the southern cemetery of Begarawiya, where it was found by Ferlini. Its precise provenance may be either S1 or S9. The inscription attests a hitherto unknown Kandake, who can be dated to the first half of the third century BC. From about the same time comes the representation of another royal lady, whose demolished tomb chapel was at least partly reused in the construction of the pyramid Beg N 16.
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