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The Decree of Nectanebo I was issued by Pharaoh Nectanebo I of Egypt regarding the payments to the local temple. This Decree was recorded on two steles. The location of the temple was near the Canopic branch of the Nile River, in the eastern Nile Delta of Lower Egypt. Accordingly, steles were erected at two locations as statements to curry political favor with the priesthood, and possibly the populace. The twin steles are identical in 14 columns of hieroglyphs except in column 13, where the stele's location is named. The stelae were erected shortly after Nectanebo came to power, ca 380 BC. ==Stele description== The stele's purpose was to use a portion-(10 percent) of the water-way use tax, (import tax) for the services of the priests in charge of the temples of the goddess Neith.〔(Heracleion, Decree of Nectanebo I )〕 A finely engraved lunette adorns the upper third of the steles; the engravings and hieroglyphs are all incised in moderate sunken bas relief. The lunette focusses on two versions of the Goddess Neith, being offered a food offering on the right, and a usekh collar on the left, by the presenter Nectanebo. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Twin steles of Decree of Nectanebo I」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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