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The website http://www.odysseyadventures.ca/articles/saqqara/saqqara_text.htm
shows as many as 6 of these boundary markers. They seem to be related to a running ceremony from the heb sed festival. I don't see any evidence of bridges there.
If they are just boundary markers, then the shape is interesting. Unless they somehow mimick hills, thereby depicting the imaginary boundaries of the Two Lands? In that case running between the boundary markers somehow represents a symbolic tour of the domains uner the contol of the pharaohs?
Just a guess on my part :)
They might be like the mounds in the akhet hieroglyph, that is 2 symmetrical 'arched' shapes. In plan though i think the outside parts slope towards the center axis. Not sure why. I have no idea they're for and their use for ceremonies is quite plausible, like a platform of sorts.
I only see 2 sets of these boundry ciams. There is a platform in the Hed-Sed court that has flanking steps leading up to it.
In the picture from Odyssey Adventures: "Ebony Label showing the Heb-Sed of the Dynasty I pharaoh, Den" it does show 6 u-shapes with a dancing figure between them, I suppose this is what you're referring to. but does that mean the Great Court definitely has 6 of these?
Quoting from Odyssey Adventures: "...horseshoe-shaped cairns — presumably the equivalent of those depicted in the reliefs and on the Den label"
I'm not sure exactly what they're referring to.
it goes on to explain the ceremony: "An important part of the ritual apparently involved the king emerging from a raised pavilion and running or dancing between horseshoe-shaped markers. The ritual was known as ‘encompassing the field’ and was the means by which the pharaoh established his claim to the kingdom, by beating its symbolic boundaries."
hmm, i guess that explains what they are. I don't really think they're bridge buttresses much any more, but their specific shape, and not just the U-shape of it, has me intrigued.
you mentioned, and quoted above that the king would dance between these markers... i wonder, if he represents ka, and the markers represent the east/west, and north/south (if there are 4 total) that he is the sun offering blessing on all of the land. one pair would represent east and west in the south and the other pair representing east/west in the north. hmmm, this sounds like something. but if there are 6 markers, that wouldn't make as much sense.
Also, quoting from Odyssey Adventures "There was a raised throne dais with a ramp— just like that depicted on Den's label— on the northern edge, right next to the pyramid"
I don't see as of yet any evidence of this. I also don't know exactly what the Den's label is? (the walls of the Den?)
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