Bibliography for the Sed festival:
- Hornung/Staehelin
1974 (list of all attestations for the Sed festival, discussion of which
sources refer to a real Sed festival, and which are symbolic)
- Kaiser 1971 (the fundamental
research for the interpretation of the scenes of the Sed Festival in the sun
temple of Niuserre. Kaiser
is able to reconstruct twelve scenes)
- Martin 1984 (summary
with description of the festival following the reliefs found in the sun temple
of Niuserre. Martin divided the sed festival into nine scenes, leaving out
the scenes with the carrying chair)
- Naville 1892 (publication
of reliefs from a gateway found in Bubastis. The reliefs show a king in his
sed festival).
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