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| On the island of Sehel, in the First
Cataract, there is a stela called the 'Stela of
Famine', carved on a granite boulder in
Ptolemaic times. The text tells of a great
famine that lasted seven years, and which befell
the land during the reign of the pharaoh Djoser
because of the limited extent of the flooding of
the Nile. The famine ended, supposedly, due to
the prayers of the king, which caused the
intervention of the god Khnum, 'Lord of the
Cataract', who returned the situation to normal. |
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