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The ancient text reports about king Neferkasokar (late 2nd dynasty), who faces a seven-year-famine during his reign. [5] [1] [6] [7] The Famine Stela is one of only three known inscriptions that connect the cartouche name Djeser (“lordly”) with the serekh name Netjerikhet (“divine body”) of king Djoser in
The stela recounts a seven-year period of drought and famine during the reign of King Djoser of the Third Dynasty. According to the inscription, Djoser receives a vision of Khnum, who promises to end the famine. In response, the king issues a decree of one-tenth of all revenue to be allocated to the Temple of Khnum as an offering of gratitude.
An inscription known as the Famine Stela and claiming to date to the reign of Djoser, but probably created during the Ptolemaic Dynasty, relates how Djoser rebuilt the temple of Khnum on the island of Elephantine at the First Cataract, thus ending a seven-year famine in Egypt. Some consider this ancient inscription as a legend at the time it ...
Stories from the 1st millennium BC written in Demotic include the story of the Famine Stela (set in the Old Kingdom, although written during the Ptolemaic dynasty) and short story cycles of the Ptolemaic and Roman periods that transform well-known historical figures such as Khaemweset (Nineteenth Dynasty) and Inaros (First Persian Period) into ...
Funerary temple of Djoser at Saqqara. The Third Dynasty of ancient Egypt (Dynasty III) is the first dynasty of the Old Kingdom.Other dynasties of the Old Kingdom include the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth.
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The stela for Sehetepibre, containing the first part of the Loyalist Teaching (CG 20538). The full text of The Loyalist Teaching comprises approximately 145 verses. [4] It can be divided into two distinguishable sections. In the first, the teacher instructs his children that they must always respect and obey the pharaoh of Egypt, who is given ...
Three Egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions are known, [1] all of which bear the cartouche of Ramses II.This was first identified by Karl Richard Lepsius. [13] At least one of these is thought to have been placed during the Pharaoh's first campaign in the Levant, and set the Nahr al-Kalb as the border between Egypt's province of Canaan and the possessions of the Hittites.