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The two versions of biographical inscription of nomarch Sarenput I in Qubbet al-Hawa are known as similar. However, a comparative study of this double version reveals some notable differences: the restitution of the gaps shows that certain parts of the text, at least in the introduction, cannot be identical and that the graphic and semantic differences are marked enough throughout the two contemporary versions.

This analysis allows to perceive thus the stages necessary to the realization of this type of text and to pose a series of interrogations: the existence of one or more "authors", the preliminary presence of one or two models into hieratic on perishable support and the realization by one or two scribes of the final versions. Lastly, proposals for fillings of the gaps in introduction of the version inside the tomb reveal that these two biographies, even if they are similar on many points, they are not completely similar as for their structures and their writings.