TITLU în română: Stela „hieratică” a sherdenului Pazegef: observaţii şi cercetare
Subiect: In 1904, during the excavations of the site of Ehnasiya el-Medina, the ancient Herakleopolis Magna, the English archaeologist W. F. M. Petrie discovered a limestone stele among the ruins of the Ramesside temple of the local god Hershef, dating back to the XXI-XXII Dynasty. The document, written in abnormal hieratic, is of considerable importance if we consider that it is the first ‘biographical’ attestation of a Sherden/Shardana warrior in Ramesside Egypt. The available data on Sherden in Ancient Egypt, data that covers the XVIII-XXII dynasties, actually represents the most relevant and essential core of sources for this historical phenomenon occurring in the Mediterranean Late Bronze Age, as well as an excellent starting point for further investigations inside and outside the Nile Valley. Since 2007 the “Shardana Project”, developed by the “J. F. Champollion” Centre for the Study of Egyptology and the Coptic Civilization in Genoa, Cairo and Luxor, aims to collect all data about these “warriors” available both within and without Pharaonic Egypt during the Late Bronze Age. The Shardana stele represents an essential source about their culture inside Egypt, and the present article contains a translation of it for further investigations and analysis.
