Bentresh Stela

The Legend of the Possessed Princess

Anonymous / Ptolemaic-period priestly composition · c. 300-100 BC (composition, set in the reign of Ramesses II) · Karnak (Egypt) · poetry

A princess possessed by a hostile spirit in distant Bakhtan can only be healed once the god Khonsu himself travels abroad and outwits the foreign chief who wants to keep his statue, projecting Egyptian religious supremacy onto a legendary Ramesses II.