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This volume of the Paleographie hieroglyphique collection offers a study of the hieroglyphic signs carved on several stelae of the Kushite King Taharqa of the 25th Dynasty. Among these stelae, five are from the site of Kawa, Sudan. The text of the stela Kawa V about the flood of the Nile in the Year 6 has also been copied on three other stelae found in different locations of the Egyptian territory, which allowed the selection of signs carved in the Delta (Tanis), in Upper Egypt (Coptos and Mataanah) as well as in Sudan (Kawa). Ultimately, eight stelae dating from a period of nine years (689-681 BC) furnished the 439 signs commented in this volume and offered as facsimiles in 118 plates. The signs have been mainly compared with those of monuments and stelae of the Napatan period, but also with those of anterior and posterior periods when that seemed pertinent.