High Priest of Ra

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The High Priest of Ra or of Re was known in Egyptian as the wr-mꜢw, which translates as Greatest of Seers.[1]

The main cult of

Heliopolis, northeast of present-day Cairo. The high priests of Ra are not as well documented as the high priests of other deities such as Amun and Ptah
.

List of high priests

Old Kingdom
(c. 2686 BCE – 2181 BCE)
  • Third Dynasty
  • Fourth Dynasty
Middle Kingdom (c. 2055 BCE–1550 BCE)
New Kingdom (c. 1550 BCE–1069 BCE)
Eighteenth Dynasty
Nineteenth Dynasty
Twentieth Dynasty

Related archaeological elements

The Masalla Obelisk, at the Temple of Re—Atum site in Al-Matariyyah.

The Al-Masalla area of the

Twelfth Dynasty. [4][5]

References

  1. ^ Elizabeth Frood, John Baines, Biographical texts from Ramessid Egypt.
  2. , p. 177
  3. ^ "El-Matariya Tombs, Heliopolis, Cairo". Archived from the original on 2010-12-23. Retrieved 2011-01-30. Planetware: Priests of Re tombs, Heliopolis—Al-Matariyyah. accessed 01.28.2011
  4. ^ Griffith, Francis Llewellyn (1911). "Obelisk" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 945.
  5. ^ http://www.planetware.com/cairo/heliopolis-obelisk-egy-cai-obe.htm Planetware: Masalla Obelisk, Temple of Re—Atum, Heliopolis—Al-Matariyyah . accessed 01.28.2011