Station C2

Chamber of the ennead C 2

This room, like the preceding one, has the same location in most of the large temples of the Graeco-Roman period: immediately after the offering chamber and directly before the sanctuary. Its name is the hall of the ennead, a group of (sometimes nine) deities. On the east wall, the king holds two sistra before a portable divine shrine standing on a podium. Beside it, the king is standing before the temple goddess, the lion-headed Repit, presenting her with a tray with seven loaves of bread.

In the north, in the door passage at the entrance of the first sanctuary room D 1, are several registers of armed deities. These are protector deities of the papyrus thicket of Khemmis, a mythical place in the Delta, where Horus, the son of Isis and Osiris, was born and raised hidden away in order to protect him from his hostile uncle Seth, the murderer of his father Osiris.

In Late Roman times the eastern half of C 2 was used as a workshop: It is full of basins and vats that might have been for dying garments.