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offering flowers
Title of the scene:
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Offering cut off flowers [...]
Amenhotep III
Thebes: East Bank, Luxor temple, First Vestibule (V), south wall, door frame, left jamb
vestibule
door jamb
Amun-Ra, Lord of the Thrones of the Two Lands, Lord of Heaven, Who is in the Middst of his Jp.t
turned left, striding with the right arm extended forward and holding the was-sceptre and the left arm lowered along the body and holding the ankh-sign
Amun's feather crown on a base with a long ribbon, divine beard, wide necklace, wristlets on both wrists, plain loin-cloth, belt, bull's tail
was-sceptre, ankh-sign
no attributes
Amenhotep III
turned right, striding with the right arm extended forward and holding a bouquet of flowers and with the left arm lowered along the body with palm facing down
white crown, false beard, wide necklace, wristlets on both wrists, loin-cloth with a triangular apron and a sporran-like ornament flanked by two uraei, belt, bull's tail
bouquet of flowers
Bibliography:
- Gayet, Albert, Le temple de Louxor. 1er fascicule, Constructions d'Aménophis III, cour d'Aménophis, salle hypostyle, salles des offertoires, salle du lever et sanctuaire de Maut, Mémoires publiés par les membres de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale 15, Paris 1894, Pl(s). XXII, Fig(s). 78
- Moss, Rosalind L.B., Porter, Bertha, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings II. Theban Temples, 2nd ed., Oxford 1972, 321 (124)
