Raising the Pole for Min in the Temple of Isis at Shanhūr

• Autores: Martina Minas-Nerpel, Marleen De Meyer
• Localización: Zeitschrift für Ägyptische sprache und altertumskunde, ISSN 0044-216X, Vol. 140, Nº. 2, 2013, págs. 150-166
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article presents the translation and commentary of two unpublished offering scenes from the eastern and western external walls of the Roman period temple at Shanhūr.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.