Sed festival

The goddess also played a part in royal ceremonies such as the Sed festival.

Once the king wears the Sed festival dress.

East of the main sanctuary, he built a jubilee hall in which to celebrate his Sed festival.

She became her father's wife in Year 34, around Amenhotep's second sed festival.

The Sed festival celebrated the thirtieth year of a pharaoh's rule and then every three (or four in one case) years after that.

There is a second sed festival attested.

His treasurer was Khety who was involved in organising the sed festival for the king.

More precisely, this second change may have taken place on the occasion of the sed festival celebrated during his 39th year on the throne.

Karnak also contains structures which were apparently built for his Sed festival, but he died before he could use them.

Some kings simply claimed to have celebrated a Sed festival, despite archaeological evidences proof that they did not rule for 30 years.

Coronations and jubilees such as the Sed festival were celebrated in the temple of Ptah.

Several stone vessel inscriptions mention a second Sed festival for Qa'a which points to at least 33 years of reign.

Among the latter were coronation ceremonies and the sed festival, a ritual renewal of the pharaoh's strength that took place periodically during his reign.

During the New Kingdom, she was involved in the Sed festival held by the pharaohs who could celebrate thirty years of reign.

This would better explain the degree of completion of his Sed Festival preparations at Karnak.

The previous sed festivals had been announced by the King's Son Khaemwaset and Khay both.

His religious reformation may have begun with his decision to celebrate his first Sed festival in his third regnal year.

These were probably added to the temple for the celebration of Mentuhotep II's Sed festival during his 39th year on the throne.

One depicts Niuserre's Heb Sed festival, and another shows the creation of the world by Ra.

Ramesses II even married two Hittite princesses, the first after his second Sed Festival.

One of the most important feasts of Ancient Egypt linked with a king's time on the throne was the Sed festival, the heb-sed.

Dr. Hawass, who led the uncovering of the pyramid, believed that the satellite pyramid was used symbolically as a changing room for the Sed festival.

By tradition, in the 30th year of his reign Ramesses celebrated a jubilee called the Sed festival, during which the king was ritually transformed into a god.

Sokar feast The "Sokar festival" is - alongside the Sed festival - one of the oldest festivals.

Eventually, Sed festivals were jubilees celebrated after a ruler had held the throne for thirty years and then every three (or four in one case) years after that.