The ninth International Conference "The Egyptian Temple" was held in Hamburg from September 27 to October 1, 2011. It is organized by the Hamburg Institute of Archaeology, a division of the Edfu Project. The project managers are D. Kurt and V. Vaitkus, well-known experts in architecture, epigraphy and visual program of Egyptian temples of the Greco-Roman period. This conference was co-founded by the Egyptology division of the Gottingen Academy of Sciences (head-E. Grefe), which has been working on the "Edfu Project" in cooperation with the Hamburg Institute of Archaeology for the past two years. Conferences on the study of the features of the Egyptian temple have been held since 1991 at various universities in Germany, Poland and the Netherlands. Conference materials are regularly published in the international series "Egyptian Studies", which includes both monographs and collections of articles. Conferences address various issues related to the study of Nile Valley temples: features of the iconographic program of the temple, rituals, calendar holidays, etc. The main problems of this conference were studies of the content of the cult of the gods, everyday and festive practices of temple rituals. One of the main tasks of the conference in Hamburg was to determine the correlation between these temple texts and real cult activities related to the object of worship - individual temples of the Nile Valley and large religious complexes throughout the development of ancient Egyptian civilization. In the presented reports, much attention was paid to identifying the semantics of cult images in ancient Egyptian temples, developing methodological tools for identifying the main cult and the gods worshipped in temples, studying individual problems in the general context of the religious worldview of each particular era and in the iconographic program of a single complex. 24 reports of scientists from Germany, France, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, and Russia were heard and ... Read more