Hatshepsut striking four times in choice of meat from bull's foreleg before Amun-Ra

Jadwiga Iwaszczuk
September 28, 2023

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offering incense

Title of the scene:
jḥwt ʿ sp 4 r stp [ḫpš]
Striking four times in choice of meat from [bull's foreleg]

Dating:
Original: Hatshepsut  |  Erasures: Amarna period (figure, name and epithets of Amun-Ra)  |  Restorations: post-Amarna period (figure, name and epithets of Amun-Ra)

Site:
Thebes: Karnak, Central Karnak, northern obelisk of Hatshepsut, north face (KIU 3332)

obelisk

shaft's face

Amun-Ra, King of Gods, Lord of Heaven (restored)

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, jacket with two stripes, armlets on both arms, wristlets on both wrists, plain loin-cloth, belt, bull's tail

was-sceptre, ankh-sign

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Hatshepsut

turned right, striding with the left arm extended forward and holding the sḫm-sceptre, and the right arm extended forward and holding the mks-staff and the ḥḏ-sceptre

shuty-crown on ram's horns and on a base, false beard, wide necklace, armlet on the left arm, wristlets on both wrists, loin-cloth with a triangular apron and a sporran-like ornament flanked by two uraei, belt, bull's tail

sḫm-sceptre, mks-staff and ḥḏ-sceptre


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