In ancient Egypt, a stolist was a person who held the rank of

priest A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particu ...

and is now understood to have been an adorner of divine images. At some time, stolists belonged to a group or guild known as ''nekrostolisteis'', as is attested to by the

archaeological Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

finds of the

Siwa Oasis The Siwa Oasis ( ar, واحة سيوة, ''Wāḥat Sīwah,'' ) is an urban oasis in Egypt; between the Qattara Depression and the Great Sand Sea in the Western Desert (Egypt), Western Desert, 50 km (30 mi) east of the Libyan Egypt–Li ...

, this particularly being an inscription dating to the 1st century CE.D. Frankfurter
Religion in Roman Egypt: Assimilation and Resistance (p. 73).
Princeton University Press 1998 (reprint), 314 pages, ''Mythos: the Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology Series'', etrieved 2015-06-29/ref>

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