Bouquet from Djeser-achet

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The " bouquet of Djeser-achet " was the abbreviation for the solemn ceremony of the " bouquet of Amun in Djeser-achet " and consisted of the flowers of a lettuce bush .

function

In the tomb of Mencheperre-seneb (First Priest of Amun ), which dates from the time of Thutmose III. dated, the handover of the “Strauss von Djeser-achet” to the grave owner during the valley festival is only partially shown. The depiction remained unfinished until his death. The "Bouquet of Djeser-achet" symbolizes the "love of the god Amun" as an offering .

The high priest Menkheperre-seneb received this bouquet as victims share of the Karnak temple from which the god Amun took off to the king and high functionaries and the deities in Deir el-Bahari on the day of Talfestes a victim of minutes to bring the traits Amun -Re also embodied as king of the gods. During the processions , the "bouquets of Djeser-achet" were sung about and later distributed as "gifts from Amun" to the grave owners watching and celebrating on the mountain slope.

See also

literature

  • Siegfried Schott : The beautiful festival of the desert valley. Festive customs of a city of the dead (= Academy of Sciences and Literature. Treatises of the humanities and social science class. Born in 1952, No. 11, ISSN  0002-2977 ). Publishing house of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz 1953.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siegfried Schott: The beautiful festival of the desert valley: Festival customs of a city of the dead . P. 50.