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The Ancient Egyptian Sed-Festival and the Exemption from Corvee
Galán, José M.( Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid)
Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 59, No. 4 (Oct., 2000), pp. 255-264
Abstract
AMENHOTEP III’s first sed-festival (ca. 1370 B.C.) is mentioned in a large number of dockets from Malqataas well as in the tombs of Kheruef and Khaemhet,the funerary temple of Amenhotep son of Hapu, the temple of Khonsuat Karnak,and in Soleb. In the temple of Soleb, among the various scenes in relief summarizing the ritual that was performed for the occasion, there is one scene that is accompanied by an inscription with a legal and administrative content.’
The text is arranged in columns, and the firstone is placed just before a figure of a king sitting on a litter; he is wearing the Upper Egyptian crown and holding in his hand the flagellum and the heqa-scepter.The inscription is badly damaged, but some sections can still be read. The missing parts can be restored by referringto an inscription in Osorkon II’s temple at Bubastis. The latter commemorates Osorkon’s first sed-festival, celebrated in the twenty-second year of his reign (ca. 865 B.C.), in the fourth month of Akhet. Despite the geographical and chronological distance between the two inscriptions, there are only minor differences between them.
