The Stela of Hori-Sheri at the Egyptian Museum (Cairo JE 59858) Bassem Ahmed * (Taf. 30–31) Abstract This paper deals with a rectangular limestone stela of the royal scribe @ri-Sri, son of the priest and the writer of the necropolis 1mn nxt, son of 1pwy. @ri-Sri bears the same titles as his father. So he was also the royal scribe of the necropolis of Xn xni, which probably refers to the west bank of Thebes. Hori-Sheri then inherited this position from his father, the name of @ri-Sri was also written on a rock behind Medinat Habu at the reign of Ramses III. The stela is in the style of stelae of 20th dynasty. It bears no royal name, but from the name of the owner and his father we can infer that he lived during the reign of the Ramses III. He was the royal scribe of the necropolis of Thebes, as indicated by Papyrus Abbott 5, and a rock engraving behind Medinet Habu. The present paper deals with a rectangular limestone stela of the royal scribe @ri-Sri 1 , son of the priest and the scribe of the necropolis 1mn nxt, son of 1pwy 2 . @ri-Sri bears the same titles as his father. So he was also the royal scribe of the necropolis of Xn xni 3 , which prob- ably refers to the west bank of Thebes 4 . Hori-Sheri then inherited this position from his father, the name of @ri-Sri was also written on a rock behind Medinat Habu 5 at the reign of Ramses III 6 . This stela was found at Medinat Habu 7 and is currently housed in Cairo Museum, measures 36cm  35cm. It is broken and restored on its left side. A large part of its top is lost, particularly the part that includes the name of the god, most of the name of the god- dess, and part of the body of the god, it was probably a dedication to Ptah, PtH n tA (st) nfrw, which means Ptah of the Valley of the Queens 8 . The hieroglyphs and the scenes are in raised relief. The main inscription consists of seven columns of hieroglyphs and one line. The columns are in the upper part of the stela over the representations of the god and the goddess and the deceased and his father. These columns contain the names of the gods which read from right to left. On the left upper part of stela, the names of the deceased as well as of his father appear, oriented left to right at the right upper part of the stela. Each column of text is separated from the next by a vertical thick line. Under * Bassem Mohamed Sayed Ahmed, Assistant Prof. Of Egyptology, Archaeology Department, Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University – Egypt and Taif Universty – KSA. I would like to express my appreciation to Prof. Hassan Selim Professor of Ancient Egyptian Civilization at the Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, for his scientific advice on this article. 1 H. Ranke, Die ägyptischen Personennamen I, Glückstadt 1935, 251, 9. 2 T.E. Peet, The Great Tomb Robberies of the Twentieth Egyptian Dynasty, Oxford 1930, 9. 3 Ibid, 9; Pap. Abbott 5,16, H: Brugsch, Dictionnaire géographique de l’ancienne Égypte, Leipzig 1877–81, 599. 4 Peet, op.cit., 9 ,40, 41. 5 Ibid., 7, PM. I 2 , 776. 6 K.A. Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions, Historical and Biographical, V, Oxford 1983, 643,644, 658; W. Spiegelberg, Ägyptische und andere Graffiti, Inschriften und Zeichnungen aus der Thebanischen Nekropo- lis, Heidelberg 1932, 40 (460). 7 PM. I 2 , 776. 8 Pap. Abbott 5, 4–5