Menchet festival
Menchet festival in hieroglyphics | ||||||||||
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Old empire |
Heb-ef-en-menchet-em-dju-Anubis ḥb = fn-mnḫt-m-ḏw-Jnp.w Festival of Anubis' clothing on his mountain |
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12th dynasty |
Heb-ef-en-menchet-Senwosret ḥb = fn-mnḫt-S (j) -n-Wsrt Festival of the clothing of Sesostris II. |
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Fixed date |
3rd day of the moon in the second month of the Achet period |
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Sesostris II pyramid in Al-Lahun |
The Menchet festival has been documented under Niuserre since the Old Kingdom . It is directly related to the festival of Chenep-sha .
background
Old empire
The Menchet festival took place on the third day after the new moon following the Chenep-scha festival and symbolized the clothing of the moon .
12th dynasty
In honor of the deified Sesostris II was in the 12th dynasty under Sesostris III. also the name clothing of Sesostris II. after the day of Anubis sand-fetching on his mountain in the pyramid city of Sesostris II., the Blessed .
The Sesostris II pyramid of Al-Lahun , with its location, was traditionally assigned to the "Mountain of Anubis ". In the papyri available to Ludwig Borchardt , the festival date is given for two years; the 27th Achet II and for the following year the 17th Achet II. In the meantime, the dates of the 36th and 37th year of the reign of Amenemhet III. be assigned.
The month of the same name, Menchet , had no direct reference to this festival, as it was named after the deity Menchet, who was responsible for dressing the gods on their birthday.
literature
- Rolf Krauss : Sothis and moon dates. Studies on the astronomical and technical chronology of ancient Egypt (= Hildesheimer Egyptological contributions. Volume 20). Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1985, ISBN 3-8067-8086-X .
- Richard A. Parker : The calendars of ancient Egypt (= Studies in ancient Oriental Civilization. Volume 26, ISSN 0081-7554 ). University of Chicago Press, Chicago IL 1950.
- Siegfried Schott : Altägyptische Festdaten (= Academy of Sciences and Literature. Treatises of the Humanities and Social Sciences Class 1950, Volume 10, ISSN 0002-2977 ). Publishing house of the Academy of Sciences and Literature and others, Mainz and others 1950.