Scenes of Ramesses II's Celebration of the Sed Festival on the temples walls | ||
| Journal of Association of Arab Universities for Tourism and Hospitality | ||
| Article 224, Volume 22, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 381-398 PDF (1.91 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jaauth.2022.130989.1341 | ||
| Author | ||
| Mona Ezz Ali* | ||
| Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Mansoura University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This research is concerned with studying the scenes of the heb sed celebration during the reign of King Ramesses II, who celebrated many times with the sed festival more than any other king. The research exposed the scenes of the different heb sed rituals and its different purposes and its significance like the rituals of purification, running cermonies, receiving the heb sed sign, driving the four calves and presenting the four meret chests, and lastly the coronation ritual, the research also exposed the heb sed shrine of Ramesses II at Arab El Hisn which proves that Ramses II actually celebrated the Sed festival and was not just scenes recorded on the walls of the temples. The research ended by mentioning the most important results like that Ramesses II recorded on his temples walls most of the iconographical evidences which refer to the rituals performed in the heb sed festival more than any other king, especially on the southern wall of the great hypostyle hall of the great temple of Amun at El Karnak .especially on the southern wall of the great hypostyle hall of the great temple of Amun at El Karnak .Ramesses II recorded on his temples walls most of the iconographical evidences which refer to the rituals performed in the heb sed festival more than any other king, especially on the southern wall of the great hypostyle hall of the great temple of Amun at El Karnak | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Heb Sed; Ramesses II; Temples Walls | ||
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