Famine Stela

Anonymous / Ptolemaic-period priests of Khnum · c. 2nd century BC (composition, set in the reign of the Third Dynasty king Djoser) · Sehel Island (Egypt) · history

Priests facing hardship under Ptolemaic rule invent a seven-year famine solved by King Djoser's gift of land to the god Khnum, backdating their own temple's land claim by two and a half thousand years.