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Beneath these layers of debris was the ground level. Here, multiple burial pits between 0.2 m (0.66 ft; 0.38 cu) and 0.4 m (1.3 ft; 0.76 cu) were discovered. These contained the oldest burials in the area, estimated to date to the period of the funerary cult of Djedkare Isesi in the late Fifth Dynasty to the First Intermediate Period. [81]
[note 17] [94] [95] This may be a result of the increased prominence of Osiris compared with the sun god Ra during the late Fifth Dynasty. [1] [96] [97] [98] The rise of Osiris corresponds to changes in the role of the king with respect to the wider Egyptian society. In particular, the king loses his role as the sole guarantor of the afterlife ...
The Inventory Stela (also known as Stela of Khufu's Daughter) is an ancient Egyptian commemorative tablet dating to the 26th Dynasty (c. 670 BC). It was found in Giza during the 19th century. The stela presents a list of 22 divine statues owned by a Temple of Isis, and goes on to claim that the temple existed since before the time of Khufu (c ...
Herodotus, a Greek who wrote about Egypt in the fifth century BCE, likened Isis to Demeter, whose mythical search for her daughter Persephone resembled Isis's search for Osiris. Demeter was one of the few Greek deities to be widely adopted by Egyptians in Ptolemaic times, so the similarity between her and Isis provided a link between the two ...
The Fifth Dynasty of Egypt is a group of nine kings ruling Egypt for approximately 150 years in the 25th and 24th centuries BC. [note 1] The relative succession of kings is not entirely secured as there are contradictions between historical sources and archaeological evidence regarding the reign of the shadowy Shepseskare.
Behbeit El Hagar (Ancient Egyptian: Pr-ḥꜣbyt(.t), lit. 'house of festival hall', Coptic: ⲡⲁϩⲃⲉⲓⲑⲓⲟⲥ, Ancient Greek: Πααβηιθις [1]) is a village and an archaeological site in Lower Egypt that contains the remains of an ancient Egyptian temple to the goddess Isis, known as the Iseion.
Shepseskare was a king of Ancient Egypt, the fourth [19] or fifth [3] ruler of the Fifth Dynasty. Egypt was unified at the time, with its capital located at Memphis . [ 20 ] Shepseskare is the least-known king of the Fifth Dynasty as very few artefacts dating to his reign have survived to this day.
Isesi-ankh bore many titles showing that he made a successful career as a high official: [1] Overseer of all the works of the King, [note 1] Overseer of the expedition/troops, [note 2] Overseer of all judgements of the King, [note 3] Shepherd of the livestock, [note 4] Staff of the recruits, [note 5] Chief of the royal secrets, [note 6]