The Sed festival (ḥb-sd, conventional pronunciation /sɛd/; also known as Heb Sed or Feast of the Tail) was an ancient Egyptian ceremony that celebrated...
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Pyramid of Djoser (redirect from Heb-sed court)
comprises the great trench, enclosure wall, colonnaded entrance, "T" temple, Sed festival complex, north and south pavilions, south tomb and court, western mounds...
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Amenhotep III (section Sed festivals)
celebrated three Sed festivals in Regnal Years 30, 34, and 37, each at Malkata palace in Western Thebes. A temple of Amun and festival hall were built...
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Look up SED, sed, šed, or șed in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. sed is a Unix utility for processing text. Sed or SED may also refer to: Spectral energy...
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Ramesses II (section Sed festivals)
and Gerf Hussein. He celebrated an unprecedented thirteen or fourteen Sed festivals—more than any other pharaoh. Estimates of his age at death vary, although...
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lunar or agricultural cycles or the calendar in use at the time. The Sed festival, for example, celebrated the thirtieth year of an Egyptian pharaoh's...
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Coronation of the pharaoh (category Festivals in ancient Egypt)
Dynasty. Sed feast 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. It included...
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Aten"). Around regnal year two or three, Amenhotep IV organized a Sed festival. Sed festivals were ritual rejuvenations of an aging pharaoh, which usually...
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Nyuserre Ini (section Nyuserre's Sed festival)
"the sed-festival scenes from Abu Gurab [most probably reflect] the 30th jubilee of the king's accession to the throne". The reliefs of Nyuserre's Sed festival...
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at Medinet-Habu as part of the cultic celebration of the pharaonic "Sed-Festival", but was transferred at some point to Herakleopolis and the temple of...
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