for example, the scribe ptahemuia and fellow scribes visited sahure's temple in the 30th year of ramses ii's reign (c. 1249 bc) to ask sekhmet to grant them a long life of 110 years. the reason for the appearance of this cult during the new kingdom is unknown. in any case, the cult of sekhmet of sahure was not a purely local phenomenon as traces of it were found in the upper egyptian village of deir el-medina, where it was celebrated during two festivals taking place every year, on the 16th day of the first month of peret and on the 11th day of the fourth month of that season.