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Selection of scenes from the Beautiful Feast of Behdet, depicted on the walls of the open court, temple of Edfu.

Selection of scenes from the Beautiful Feast of Behdet, depicted on the walls of the open court, temple of Edfu.

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Figure 1. Detail from a relief of priests carrying the processional...
Figure 2. Selection of scenes from the Beautiful Feast of Behdet,...
Figure 4. The processional boat of Horus, sanctuary of Edfu Temple
Figure 5. Relief from Rome showing four oicials of the Isiac cult...
+3 Figure 6. Fresco painting from the Temple of Isis in Pompeii showing...
"Ceremonies of Ship Launching in Egypt between Past and Present; Tourism Promotion for Egyptian Marine Heritage" CEREMONIES OF SHIP LAUNCHING IN EGYPT BETWEEN PAST AND PRESENT; TOURISM PROMOTION FOR EGYPTIAN MARINE HERITAGE
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  • Dec 2024
Since the earliest period of the ancient Egyptian history, heads of the votive animals were placed on the prow of the ship before launching. This practice was applied to overwhelm the launched ship with divine blessing and protection. By the Roman times, the sailors launched the "vessel of Isis" into the sea to symbolize their opening of the shippi...
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... divine procession of Hathour is preceded by five sail boats in which the prows take the shape of Hathour; a woman wearing the Hathouric crown (Coppens 2009, 6, fig.7;Kitat 2023, 169). The same traditional scene was attested on the inner wall of the first pylon of Isis temple of Philae ( Hölbl 2000, 64;Abdel el-Rahman 2021, 112-116;Kitat 2023, 295-296) ( fig.2). ...