Sokar Chamber

The chapel Shetjit, to the west of it and decorated with the protector gods (see below), is 7 5/6 cubits by 6 2/3 cubits... These are the palaces of Iun (Wesir) 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, Aset and Nebt-het, are the ones who transfigure his Ka. The four Asebet goddesses protect the bier. The four Yinepu 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. Djehuty the Great One reads the festival ritual for him. The gods of Behdet, the Children of Herakhty, 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.

About The Sokar Chamber



One of three chapels in the north-west of the corridor devoted to the cult of Wesir. This chapel dedicated to Sokar as the sycretized Ptah-Sokar-wesir. Combined with the Mansion of the Prince, these chapels are known as Portals of the Pillar-god Wesir. This chapel represented the tomb of Wesir in Mennefer (Memphis). Reliefs show Aset reassembling Wesir after being dismembered by Set in the Ptolomaic mythos.

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