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of Abydus, immediately to the right of the entrance in the chapels Amn, RccHarakhti and Ptrt' (Calverley, Tenple of Sethos I' t'

PORTRAYED THE RITE OF 'BRINGING THE FOOT' AS IN TEMPLE RELIEFS

court in the temple of Ramesses III IN the upper register on the north wall of the first king leaving the-god's shrineat at Medinet Habu is r r.fi"f lE' 5below) showing,the the is epicted"in the act of .'Bringing the close of the daity ,J;;-.i'ii"'i,irlt."rr and tomb decorations' temple in times of Foot', a rite which i. il".i,"italnumber liturqicai text rvhich' however' are The picture includes eight columns of very corrupt with the in which the-king is"engaged, but rather not concerned directly *i;;;;;t; six lines The preceding and filowinglhat act. episodes of the service ;;i;y image cuit the as uttered gi the formuia Jrr*'r"""".n* ;i;r;ii;-r.ff columns to wo The qod's repast' th" was restored to its shrini;i,t ;;J;tioo-of bolted wordt u'ed i tht d*tt rvere closed and the right of the cartoucrt* of the acts three "i" records 'i" relief rrt"t this one after the priest had l.f, ;l;;;;;"ty' the king this In whole' continuous one of service u'hich, however,;;;-;;tJi parts from its shrine earlier in the service by oicked up the image, *hith ilJ;e; "*ou"d it to its naos or tabernacle' turned ihe rite f 'Laying h""d";;;;;-goa" tt-tto'"a u't'ina him' and shut and bolted 1'in-ptan' and left the pr-wv dr"d;;;;;i;.;i the doors when he had'gone outside'' Foot' there are elements in the In the reliefs d.pi"ti"t;;;" 'i'" of 'n'hging the of the po.Jilf i.po*ance for the explanation representation, ,rrut .".*1o ,i.'oi.o-. are There account' into fully been hitherto taken act rvhich have not, * ,", *;1;, service' temple the of part as rite the show at least fifteen temple ,ai.."*i"lrig whigh of ste"es of the meal for the dead' In addition to these ,h";;;;;;;;";i"t"llt number here concerned ; priest performt tht t"t" act' I am of either king or noble, t";hi; the god who, worship the in used service p"* oi,l"'i.."pi. merely with the ,i,. ". any conclusions-b::*i the temple in most instances, t. A-;;,";;;;n pt'"t"*'ury the meal for '" ;""t" rite in the "e"o"ie' accompanying usage would rppty scenes. "i.oio and locations of the flfteen the dead. The followinglirigiuo the dates el Bahari' u'
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r( .BRINGINGTHEFooT'ASPORTRAYEDINTENIPLERELIEFS85
TothereasonsadvancedbyGardinerforregardingthisriteaspartoftheterminal ,h. scene frm Medinet Habu (fig. 5)' There the which clearly belong to the, conclusion of the texts by accompanied manual act is
acts of the service may be ud"d

ftlz-plant In his discussion of the act of 'Bringing the Foot' Gardiner noted that the tnal1l .LorJ of thisptant it is 'Obviously tt"adds, n.'i of the was sacred to Thoth,
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not go far wrong rn made the obiect which the lector trails behind him, and we shall

shows-the king, still ceremonies. Moreover, the ne*t scene in the series at that iemple

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which rite the ldz-bundl., ..rg"g.d in the rite of'reversion of offerings',r scenes shrine.doors..Also the of closing the upon immediaiefi orobablv followed of 'reversion the showing reliefs precede riri"J

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offerings'.

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Gardinernotedthatsomeofthereliefsdepictingthesceneunderdiscussionshow also note that the king tfr" omli"nt looking behind him as he withdraws' We should forward as he moves leans instances' in some and,god upon-the always turns his baik
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posture ;;i ; and Calverley, op. fit', rI, pl' r3)' When the Pharaoh assumes this and leaned behind looked both he had t".u*., he does not look behind fri*, po.tiUty position' impossible, if not awkward, most a in fouJhi-r.if have fonvard, he would i;.;;" scenes, at Abydus and at Derr, he neither leans forward nor looks behind' In these scenes the figure of the god is absent' which seem to we have here in these ref four elements found in no other rite, drags the hlnHe z' god' the upon back require explanation. ,. Cn" king tumq his

bundlebehindhim'3.Hesom"etimeslooksbehindhimashemoves.4.Hesome-

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Frc. 5. Rmsscs

assuming that he thereby impersonates he has rescued the eye of at Abydus in connexion *ittt tti, act reads, 'Thoth o"'es' into this sanctuary'' enters male or female, no enemy, Horus from hi, 'tiis rite simulates Thoth' the greatmagician' ".r ".r.*i.., of He continues,'Thus tfr. p.rforrn., all maiign demols. tlal and banishes from the uh.|" o, sanctuary of temple or tomb he suggests that tne act manual the perchance are lurking there'' In explanation of he would which-accordingly by foot' demon'sitt" &dz-bundle i" 'rlt rbot Jr .mgy "i that the " suggested has simply be hauled o"t of ;.;"i; flace'. He_adds that Grifith up cleaned be would sanctuary the 'Thus priest was obliterating ftl. o.u.r'ft"teps'

III. Medinet Habu' Thoth''. He points out that the formula used

may be explained-by l.u.r, forward aJe walks. The first of these characteristics in the ceremonies, occasiononly the image, the the fact that he is moving away from elements, and these all for ixplanation An so. do.. he *.hi-ch as far as I know, in of Sethos I chapel the in a relief in .rp..iary for 3 and 4, .."-. to me to be containd shown on is sanctuary.' the into advancing king, the ;;';ydt.' fi,.r" ii," figure of the text: by accompanied is It chapel. that to .rrtr"rrce of tt" right ir." *1 to the

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*+U C'@ : =$', * El'o I - q'?'j-\}" U K -\'' spell.for entering the nN|.:El:Y--+;n'K g (3]6iiq3 temple,.who ward off =s.4 fust door of the it-tprt. To be recited: o doorkeepers of -this
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allevilonesforkingMenma<rE<,withoutpermittingthattheyenterbehindhiminto the purity of the Son of RE<' Setii. ,"-pf., th.i. fi..s ba.kwa' (as; they-recoil' "k would seem from this passage that evil *.r."pi'"tt,'it the purity oiHo"'s"t etc' as the king entered and' as the spell was temple ti'e il;i";."to.r. -igtti slip into they might find their way.even into the !t-irt, the into *"u.a he when recited
to be

seems now to and purified and so rendered less accessible to evil spirits'' fl-i"":: r' 9r' Dictionary, Berlin the be the usually accepted explanation and appears also in yet in only one of the *rtfi" t.fi.fr d.pi.ti"g this rite does the king seem to be doing were he what might be termed 'slveeping' (fig" '),- as- would seem to be necessary the touch even not does obliterating his footprints. il .;.;hefs the hdn-brndle to the merely due. be j-t+), may however' which, a fact .or. t floor (figs. 3, 4, 5, Ddz-bundle "na the artist,s carelessness in a.f,ir io'th" p..frr.rctory manner in which

that such demons would verv shrine of the god itself. However, the formula assumes turned backrvard. be would faces their doing, so ...}i, *-ril"ra, while magic' some of it ofmagic, nature in the was service temple the of Much In the "sympathetic deities' the of other ot n" rvhich resulted at times in the officiant impersonating

textoftheliturgyhepasseseasilyfromoneroletoanothersothatSometimesheis
Calverley, Tmple.ofSe.thos.IqtAbydos'tl'pl'?9' 3Itisnotapparentjusts,hythedoorkeepere,s'ho.ward.ofieviispiris,shouldbeinfomedbythekingthat generally made by a deity to the king ed not by the king himself' he is pure c Horus is pure. Tfu. "oi"-"., i. for *s westrained entrance into the temple It is possible that the purity tf ti" ti"g -* I sort oi authoriry pemitted to enter' be to not were rtho demons of the in contrNt to the unclemess

I MedinetHabu,tv,z4zo.'

had come to be used

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