#shabaqo

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Shabaqo’s donation stela, at the Met. Shabaqo, the second of the Nubian pharaohs who ruled Egypt during the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty, is shown offering fields to Horus and Wadjet.

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This donation stela shows the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty pharaoh Shabaqo presenting a field to Horus and Wadjet. It’s a real field being given by the king. The inscription, which unusually is carved in hieratic instead of hieroglyphs, threatens that if anyone takes the field back from the temple(s), they’ll be destroyed by pharaoh and Sekhmet. (These threats of punishment by the divine, deceased king only crop up in the Late Period.)

(This info comes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, November 1956 - I looked it up on JSTOR. You can get a free account and view up to three articles at no cost. What a treasure!)