Ramesses II
holds 4 calves
by tethers attached to the rear flippers. The calves are of different colors: speckled, red, white and black. He pushes them toward
Khonsu and Sety
I. Behind Sety, a part of a scene representing
an action of
the heb-sed is
even visible. This ritual of the 4 calves has been represented for the first
time in the
pyramid of Sahouré of the
Fifth dynasty in Abousir, but it is surely older. It is about an agricultural source
ritual. The calves
are driven toward
the area of beating of the god so that his grain is perfected.