The article presents some preliminary remarks on the foreman of the left side Qaha (i) and his religious practices through a look at a number of his stelae. The divinities to which these stelae are dedicated are part of the divine world of Deir el-Medina, including the main ones of the Egyptian pantheon, as well as the Near Eastern gods and goddesses much worshipped during the reign of Ramesses II. The study focuses in its second part on the Qaha’s so-called “Southern stela,” found broken into numerous small fragments in 1930 and kept since then in Deir el-Medina storerooms. The stela was part of an original structure built in the court of the family’s funerary complex. Its study aims to make known this original monument which brings additional information on one important family of the village at the time of Ramesses II.
Deir el-Medina; Qaha; stela
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