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- Title
Raising the Pole for Min in the Temple of Isis at Shanhūr.
- Authors
Minas-Nerpel, Martina; De Meyer, Marleen
- Abstract
This article presents the translation and commentary of two unpublished offering scenes from the eastern and western external walls of the Roman period temple at Shanhūr. Pharaoh Claudius (41-54 CE) raises the pole for Min's cult chapel and presents lettuce to the same god in the corresponding scene. The pole-raising scene is quite exceptional for many reasons, but mainly because a specific date is mentioned for this ritual, a unique element in all known pole-raising scenes so far, which enables us to date a local Min festival. The appendix provides a chronological and up-to-date overview of all known thirty-two pole-raising scenes from the Old Kingdom to the Roman Period.
- Subjects
ROMAN temples; ROMANS; SYMBOLISM; MASONRY; CHRONOLOGY
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde, 2013, Vol 140, Issue 2, p150
- ISSN
0044-216X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1524/zaes.2013.0015