The great litany of Répit and the sarcophagus of Panéhemisé

The first two lectures were devoted to the temple of the goddess Repit at Athribis in Upper Egypt. This edifice is located some 10 km west of Sohag, in the foothills of the Libyan desert, where the plateau rises to over 200 m above the Nile valley. It was Ptolemy XII who initiated the construction of a great temple, measuring no less than 75 m long and 45 m wide, and whose decoration was completed by the first Roman emperors. The building contains a large litany of Repit which, spread over ten columns, decorates the first register of the west wall of the east peristyle; there is also, in the first register of the west peristyle, another litany dedicated to the goddess Bastet, but this will be the subject of another study.