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slash setup around 1263 BCE the Rameses II celebrated the first of his said festivals.

The grand jubilee, taking place 30 years into his reign, was a moment of great celebration and rejoicing.

In the city of Mennefer, or Memphis, the king had undergone a series of rituals and ceremonies,

including feats of strength to demonstrate his capacity for rule.

The celebrations were accompanied by rejoicing and countless offerings for the great gods of Egypt.

After those offerings were made, the goods themselves were distributed to courtiers, priests,

and the assembled populace who came to see the event.

You can imagine that with so much food, beer, and wine coming forth from the palaces, it must

have been a magnificent party.

As the collective hangover abated though, sad news

arrived in the palace. In the great temple of Pita, also in Mennefer, the priests announced

the death of the Apis bull. Apis was a sacred animal who lived at Pita's temple. His cult was old. The earliest records for

it go back to the very start of Egypt's kingdom. Arpus, or HEP, meaning Runa, enjoyed great

prestige as a kind of earthly symbol for Bita, not the god himself, but his living representative, or Wechem, Herald.

The Arpus enjoyed a life of comfort, abundant feed, and plenty of cows to mate.

After his death, the bull underwent a form of mummification and burial in splendour.

We have a really good idea of how this went down in the days of Rameses II. The Arpus died around late June or early July of 1263 BCE.

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