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Abstract
The New Year was celebrated as a national feast believed to have been celebrated through all the temples of Egypt This feast is linked to the star Sopdet, as by the observation of its heliacal rising, the feast would start. The New Year honored the Nile and also celebrated the death and rebirth of Osiris and the rejuvenation and rebirth of the land and the people. Moreover, the New Year Festival was an occasion for the coronation of the King, marking the beginning of a peaceful year.
The timeline the thesis covers is from the earliest appearance of the wp rnpt in texts from the Old Kingdom to the Roman Era, with the researcher successfully analyzing 158 documents that cover this period. The researcher concluded that the earliest inscribed texts that tell about the rituals of the feast are from the Old Kingdom, but found mention of remains of temples aligned to the star Sopdet that date back to the Archaic Period.
The researcher decided to use a sample of the New Year’s texts based on random selection, although this was refined by selecting those provided insight into the rituals specifically. The thesis starts with an introduction shedding the light on the importance of the astronomical observations with their associated festivals. It also focuses on the religious significance of the New Year Festival, and the rituals practiced in general, besides the role of the priests in monitoring the stars to start the celebration.
Furthermore, the thesis is structured in four main chapters; the first three focus on the documentation; dividing the 158 documents that the researcher studied. These documents are subject to an analytic study in Chapter Four leading to the conclusion.
Chapter One focuses on the study of the texts of the wp rnpt found in temples located in Egypt. Chapter Two deals with the texts of the wp rnpt found in the tombs dating back from the Old Kingdom to the Ptolemaic Period where examples of those tombs are studied. Chapter Three comprise objects that were only found in Egypt. In this chapter they are categorized by type and are then arranged chronologically.