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This document summarizes an academic article about an ancient Egyptian funerary stela discovered in 1860 at Abydos by Auguste Mariette, the first director of the Egyptian Antiquities Service. The stela, now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, contains an "autobiographical" inscription of a late Old Kingdom Egyptian named Weni the Elder. The article discusses how such inscribed objects were originally decontextualized from their archaeological contexts during early excavations at Abydos that prioritized acquiri

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Monica Ventura

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