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Dendara. The Gate of Horus. Collection: Dendara Temples 15.8.
CAUVILLE Sylvie.

Dendara. The Gate of Horus. Collection: Dendara Temples 15.8.

IFAO
€32,00 €0,00
N° d'inventaire 23958
Format 24.5 x 32
Détails 168 pages, 85 color plates, publisher's hardcover.
Publication Cairo, 2021
Etat Nine
ISBN 9782724707953
The Gate of Horus completes the two-thousand-year-old cycle that saw Edfu and Dendara united by the closest religious ties. The domain to which it gave access constitutes an enclave of the southern city. Horus joins Hathor, and both celebrate Osiris Pa-Âkhem with the quadruple essence, under which Ra, Sokar, Horus, and Osiris are subsumed. The texts indicate that the Osirian workshop was located in the domain of Horus; from there, the processions went to the Osirian necropolis, the theater of the mysteries of Khoiak. Completely unpublished until now, the texts and representations of the Horus Gate, decorated with the names of Antoninus Pius (138-161 AD) and Marcus Aurelius (161-180 AD), constitute the final priestly production of a city already flourishing in the Old Kingdom.
The Gate of Horus completes the two-thousand-year-old cycle that saw Edfu and Dendara united by the closest religious ties. The domain to which it gave access constitutes an enclave of the southern city. Horus joins Hathor, and both celebrate Osiris Pa-Âkhem with the quadruple essence, under which Ra, Sokar, Horus, and Osiris are subsumed. The texts indicate that the Osirian workshop was located in the domain of Horus; from there, the processions went to the Osirian necropolis, the theater of the mysteries of Khoiak. Completely unpublished until now, the texts and representations of the Horus Gate, decorated with the names of Antoninus Pius (138-161 AD) and Marcus Aurelius (161-180 AD), constitute the final priestly production of a city already flourishing in the Old Kingdom.