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Raising the pole for Min in the temple of Isis at Shanhūr

Martina Minas-Nerpel, Marleen DeMeyer

Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde, Volume: 140, Pages: 150 - 166

Swansea University Author: Martina Minas-Nerpel

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This article presents the translation and analysis of two unpublished offering scenes from the eastern and western external walls of the Roman period temple at Shanhūr.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

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Published: 2013
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description This article presents the translation and analysis of two unpublished offering scenes from the eastern and western external walls of the Roman period temple at Shanhūr.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 and to understand the cult topography of a region highly important in Roman Egypt. 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 (that is for more than 3,000 years).
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