Per Djeba

Inner Part of Shetjit

The Chapel known as the Inner Part of Shetjit is to the southwest of it (Great Seat), a square room of 8 cubits (on every side). These are the palaces of Iun (Osiris) in Behdet. His forms have been carved on the walls of the three chambers. The two weeping and mourning women, the two sisters, protect him; they are the two kites, Isis and Nephtys, are the ones who transfigure his Ka. The four Asebet goddesses protect the bier. The four Anubis gods, the four door-keepers of the underworld [...], the sharp-eyed protective gods. The gods of the underworld, who do not leave their districts, are jointly responsible for his protection. Heru the Protector of his Father protects him. Thoth the Great One reads the festival ritual for him. The gods of Behdet, the Children of Horakhty, the living Ba of Ra in the midst of his children and the underworld gods, who guard the nome [and] his [towns], are in their place, and watch over him.

- The Great Building Inscription of the edfu Temple Translated by Dieter Kurth

About the Inner Part of Shetjit

One of three chapels in the north-west of the corridor devoted to the cult of Osiris. This chapel dedicated to Sokar as the sycretized Ptah-Sokar-Osiris. This chapel was devoted to Osiris in His association of Isis and Nephtys.