The
Shabaka Stone, sometimes Shabaqo, is a relic from the
Nubian Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt incised with an Egyptian religious text. It is a composition of
breccia measuring 91 cm on the left in height and 95 cm on the right as well as 137 cm in width. The text claims to contain the surviving content of a worm-ridden, decaying
papyrus that was found as pharaoh
Shabaka was inspecting the temple of
Ptah in
Memphis, Egypt. In later years, the stone is believed to have been used as a
millstone damaging the
hieroglyphics. This damage is accompanied by other intentional defacements, leaving the hieroglyphics in poor condition.