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Newly Discovered Carving
A newfound stone cutting reveals Roman Emperor Claudius dressed as an Egyptian pharaoh while wear down an detailed crown . The hieroglyphs say Claudius is parent the magnetic pole of the cult chapel service of Egyptian fertility god Min and suggests a rite like this involve place around the summertime .
Lettuce Scene
A squad of researchers have find and recorded this assuagement which was cut up in Isidor Feinstein Stone on the western exterior wall of the Temple of Isis at Shanhur . To the right the Roman Emperor Claudius is present as an Egyptian pharaoh while wearing an elaborate treetop . He look the Egyptian god Min , on the left , who is assume a crown of his own and has an vertical penis . In between them a giant magnetic pole is being raise by Claudius with a lunar crescent at the top . Eight men , each wearing two feathers , are show climbing the support poles in an unrealistic fashion , their legs drop in mid - air .
Shanhur Temple western exterior wall
The westerly exterior wall at the Temple of Isis at Shanhur where the scene was uncovered . Originally the synagogue had 36 fit on each of the westerly and eastern exterior wall . The new view , protected for millennia by a layer of turd , is one of the best preserved .
Claudius
The Romanist emperor Claudius ( reign A.D. 41 - 54 ) , whose bust is shown here , was considered the " sinister sheep " of his family and never expected to become emperor moth . However , after the murder of Caligula in January A.D. 41 , Claudius ascended to the throne . Claudius cash in one’s chips in A.D. 54 , possibly after being poisoned by a mushroom .
Roman empire map
Egyptian rulers are express wearing crowns like this relatively late in Egyptian chronicle . They are worn in Egypt only and not the rest of the Roman Empire ( shown here in A.D. 54 ) .
Battle-actium
The Battle of Actium , fight in 31 B.C. , was a polar naval battle which resulted in Octavian ( the succeeding Emperor Augustus ) defeating the force of Cleopatra and Mark Antony . Cleopatra invest suicide the following year and Egypt became a state of the papistic imperium . The solvent of this fight meant that succeeding Romanic emperors , including Claudius , become the ruler of Egypt even if they never visited the commonwealth .
Fertility god
In the late name carving , the god Min is wearing his own crown and has an erect member , because Min was a god of fertility , the investigator said . Shown here in another sculpture , this one carved into the Karnak Temple , the god Min was often shown in human manly mannikin holding his erect phallus .
