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Аннотация:The Sacral Kingship of Gods in the Texts of the Herakleopolitan Dignitaries at the Start of the Macedonian Time
Ivan Ladynin (Moscow)
The article analyses the private inscriptions of Herakleopolitan dignitaries coming back to the last third of the 4th century B.C.: the autobiographical inscription of Somtutefnakht on the Stela of Naples (the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, no. 1035; the time of Alexander the Great or of the later Argeads/early reign of Ptolemy I); the inscriptions of Hor on the statues from the Louvre (A88; the Second Persian Domination or the start of the Macedonian time) and from the museum of Alexandria (s.n.). The inscriptions highlight the image of the god Herishef as the supreme deity, the patron of the monument’s beneficiary (in the case of Somtutefnakht), and the sacral ruler; in several instances the capacity of the sacral ruler is stated for Osiris. Symptomatically, the inscriptions also emphasize the benefactions of the dignitaries to the people of their nomes. At a lesser length similar accents are attested in the inscriptions of the sculpture group of Pacherientaisoui from Xois (Cairo JE 36576); and they are present on these monuments in a much more accentuated manner than in the other texts of the early Macedonian time. It seems that these accents (the transfer of the sacral kingship on deities and of the function of everyday “social care” on non-royal Egyptian dignitaries instead of the Macedonian kings) is determined by the strong opposition to the Macedonian rule in these towns, much neglected by the new authorities of Egypt despite their ancient tradition and the mythological undercurrents of their history.