Dendera: Electricity in Old Egypt

This relief is to be found in an underground champer in the temple of Dendera. The champer is 1,12 m high and 4,60 m long and it depicts a strange scene: priests and assistants hold things which resembled bulbs which were connected by cables. Is it a ceremony? Due to Ercivan (1997) there is only one interpretation for that scene: "Die von der Glühlampe ausführenden Kabel enden an einem 'Djet-Pfeiler', der hier wie eine riesige Batterie oder ein Generator wirkt." ( = "The cables from the bulb are ending in a Djet-column which here functions like a huge battery or generator", my translation. The quotation is to be found on page 88, as well as the drawing.) Ercivan writes that in Dendera not the usual hieroglyphic script was used, but a kind of cryptograph. Due to Erich von Dänicken in this crypt of Dendera was celebrated the hermetism of electricity.