Sed festival
The sed festival (or heb sed) was an Ancient Egyptian ceremony held to celebrate the continued rule of a pharoah. Sed festivals were jubilees held after a ruler had held the throne for thirty years and then every three years after that. They contained elaborate rituals and included processions, offerings and other acts of religious devotion. The earliest sed festival for which we have evidence is that of Pepi I and the most lavish, judging by surviving inscriptions, were those of Ramesses II and Amenhotep III.
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