Phototherapy (39) The island of the grafitis

Did Vds. believe that the grafitis are one I begin modern? Since they are already wrong so in the Ancient Egypt there was practised this art that so much displeases the Mayor of Madrid, Alberto Ruiz Gallardón.

In the island of placed Sehel, in the river Nile, at little distance to the south of Asuán, where the first cataract of the river was, there exists a granitic hillock that is full of grafitis or hieroglyphic inscriptions in the granite. In the rocks there are inscriptions of several epochs, of the New Empire and of the period ptolemaíco.

The most well-known inscription is so called Estela del Hambre recorded in the Ptolemaic epoch, although the text recounts to times of king Dyeser (Zoser). The Stela of the Famine is a text of thirty two columns recorded in the face this one of one of the top rocks of the rocky laundering in the south end of the island of Sehel. The above mentioned stela narrates the worry of the monarch for the famine that destroyed the country after the waters of the Nile did not come at the necessary level to water the fields. The Pharaoh made to call Imhotep and asked him for the causes of such a misfortune. This one advised him to beg the end of the famine to the "Master of the Sources of the Nile", the creative god Jnum. Hence they will be recorded in so remote place. After this the increase of the river, on the following year, already was normal.

This is one of the curious aspects of the visit to Egypt.

Photos of the island of Sehel

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