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Brugsch says this feast is part of the great festival of the Theban Amon, which lasted five days; but there is no evidence on the monuments that the ceremony described by H. took place then. The ceremony seems to rest on the Egyptian idea that a god must die when he has begotten a son; Amon therefore, in the form of his ram, is killed when he has seen his son Heracles. Legrain (R. de T. E. xxviii. 1. 46) found many sheep bones at Karnak, so far confirming H.'s statement.

For τύπτονται τὸν κριόν cf. 40. 4 n.

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