Late Middle Kingdom Stelae from Assiut El-Sayed Mahfouz The Tiggart Library in the school El-Salaam (former name: El-American) at Assiut conserves amongst its collection a group of Egyptian stelae which have not been published yet 1 . Six of them are classified as falsified stelae in the register, namely: TL 2 202, TL 203, TL 204, TL 205, TL 206, and TL 209 3 . The stelae carry two register ciphers: an old one, written within black ink in arabic ciphers, 4 and a modern register, with ciphers added recently. The actual register of the collection follows the last letter without further information about the provenance. It is known that a part of this collection was acquired from the excava- tion of Petrie at Deir Rifeh and another part of it from Blackman at Meir. In addi- tion, other objects arrived at the Library from Sayed Pasha Khashaba, who was a fa- mous collector in Assiut before the Revolution, and who offered his collection to the School. The aim of this article is to study the ten stelae as one group, dated from the same period; to certify the archaeological value of the six stelae classified as falsi- fied and to shed light on the private objects dated from the Late Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediate Period. The great importance of the study also lies in the prosopographic data. The titles mentioned are the object which is very percious This contribution is offered in tentative homage to the greatly regretted master of the Late Middle Kingdom and its documentation Detlef Franke. 1 These stelae are only mentioned in the Arabic Guide prepared by Mr. Mahmoud El-Nabwy el-Shal, entitled « the Museum of Artistic Monuments under the Direction of the Public Relation of the governorate of Assiut in 1971. » Mr. Mahmoud El-Nabwy el-Shal, who occupied the post of General Director in the Ministry of Education, prepared this brief guide as I believe, based on an original register which is now lost. 2 TL is the abbreviation of Tiggart Library used in this article to distinguish the Stelae of this collection. 3 In spring 2008, an IFAO mission directed by Vincent Rondot and myself traveld to the quarries of El- Ghanaiem El-Bahari (about 39 km south of Assiut on the right side of the Nile). The study of some objects in the Collection of School El-Salaam (Tiggart Library) was one of its aims. The team was composed of very qualified technical persons from the scientific institute; namely Alain Lecler, the photographer; Damien, the Topographist, and his assistant Mohammed Gaber. I seized this oppor- tunity asking Alain Lecler to take the necessary photos to the Stelae studied in this article. I would like to express my gratitude to all the members of this team, specially, my colleagues and friends Vin- cent Rondot and Alain Lecler for the effort they exerted in taking good photos for the Stelae in spite of all the administrative difficulties that faced us. 4 We chose to classify the stelae according to this number.