Publication of a Late Middle Kingdom stela from the Salt collection (Louvre N 196 = C 42). The Abydos stela is linked with six more stelae, which were probably made in the same workshop or artistic centre based in the Memphite-Fayum region around the transition between the Twelfth and the Thirteenth Dynasties. Fifthteen artistic and epigraphic traits can now be associated with this workshop.