Abstract
Last year, I wrote a thesis on “The Egyptian Antiquities in Japanese Collections” and found that there were several funerary stelae in Japan.
The stela now I propose to deal with is one of them. It is a beautiful large limestone stela with rounded top, which is preserved in the annex museum of the Toyama Kinenkan Foundation. About this monument I am interested in following points: the several parts of the text on the stela are cut off by a chisel intentionally and the kindred of the builder of the stela is represented in a special form.
As for the first problem, I restored the name of god Amen to these lacunae. It is a well-known matter that the name of Amen was erased during the Akhnaton's religious reformation. I suppose that the stela was executed before the reign of Akhnaton.
As for the second problem, thirteen persons are represented on the stela and they are named in the inscription above their heads. The family relation of these persons is, however, obscure. After a careful examination, I noticed that some of them were represented twice or thrice. So I heve concluded that the builder's family consists of only eight persons, and reconstructed the builder's family tree.
This study will be useful for a better understanding of the ancient Egyptian funerary conception.
