ABSTRACT
Snr~at, Kartct, Meslwt, Artnait, Napata, Neh::mat, I>cr-l~emt, and Per-N ebcs.
VII.
Trm ANNALS oF NAsTASEN.
TIIE text of the Annals of N itBtascu is cut m hicroglypllics upon a massive stele of greenish grey granite about 5 ft. :>, in. high and 4 ft. 2 in. wide, which is preserved in the }~gyptian Section of the Hoyal Museum at Berlin, where it bears the number 2268.1 It arrived in the Museum in 1871, but its existence was known to lcpsins about sixteen years earlier, for he pulJlished a copy of the text cut upon it, from a paper squeeze which ~was made before the Stele was properly cleaned, in the Vth Abtheilung of his splendid work Dcnkmi.ilc1' aus
.A:r;ypten wul Athiopcn. When Lepsius first heard of the Stele it was lying at Dongola, aml for this reason it was known as the "Stole of Dougola," and it was generally assumecl that it had been set 11p at Olrl Dongola, a town on the east bank of the Nile about :JGl miles from Wadi Halfah. As a matter of fact the 1 )ongola referrccl to is New Dongola, commonly known as Al-UnH, "tl1o Camp," which lies on the west bank of the Nile, ninety miles to the north of Old Dongola. The Stele was discovered l>y Graf Wilhelm von Schlieffen in the spring of 1853, who at the request of Lepsius made a paper squeeze of the inscription on one side of it. 'When this gentleman returned to Cairo in the following winter he asked 'Abbas Pasha to give him the stone for the Berlin Museum, atHl the Viceroy dill so. The difficulty of bringing such a large, heavy stele to Cairo was considerable, and the boat-owners of Dollgola tleclmwl with nne Yoice that its transport was impossible. In 1869 the Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm interested himself personally in the matter, and two years later the Stele arrived in Berlin. Connt von Schliefren states expressly that he only made a squeeze of one side, but as Lepsius published the text of both sides before 1 859 it is clear that someone must have made for him a squeeze of the other side.
