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offering table scene
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Original: Hatshepsut | Erasures: Thurmose III (figure, name and titles of Hatshepsut) and Amarna period (figure, name and titles of Amun-Ra) | Restorations: post-Amarna period (figure, name and titles of Amun-Ra)
Thebes: West Bank, temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, Middle Terrace, Lower Shrine of Anubis, Hypostyle Hall, west wall
hypostyle hall
wall
Amun-Ra, Lord of Thrones of Two Lands, Lord of Heaven, Ruler of Thebes (restored)
turned right, enthroned with hands extended forward, holding ankh-sign in the left hand and was-sceptre in the right hand
Amun's feather crown with a long ribbon, divine beard, wide necklace, feather tunic with two shoulder straps, bull's tail, armlets and wristlets
ankh-sign in the right hand and was-sceptre in the left hand
no attributes
Hatshepsut (erased)
turned right, striding with the right hand along the body and holding an ankh-sign, and was-sceptre in the left hand
loin-cloth with a triangular apron, belt
ankh-sign in the right hand and was-sceptre in the left hand
Bibliography:
- Farina, Giulio, La Pittura egiziana, Milan 1929, Pl(s). II
- Forbes, Dennis, Howard Carter at Deir el-Bahari. His Artistic Legacy, K.M.T. A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt 22/1, 2011, 62 [lower left] (Anubis and offering table)
- Hamann, Richard, Ägyptische Kunst. Wesen und Geschichte, Berlin 1944, Fig(s). 68
- Lange, Kurt, Ägypten. Landschaft und Kunst, Berlin 1943, Pl(s). 88
- Lange, Kurt, Hirmer, Max, Aegypten. Architektur, Plastik, Malerei in drei Jahrtausenden, München 1955, Pl(s). 122
- Lange, Kurt, Hirmer, Max, Aegypten. Architektur, Plastik, Malerei in drei Jahrtausenden, München 1967, Pl(s). VII (detail of fifth row of offerings), XVI (cryptogram frieze and vulture above the queen)
- Hill, Marsha, Wilkinson, Charles K., Egyptian Wall Paintings: the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection of Facsimiles, New York 1983, 6, 72 (Nekhbet vulture, facsimile Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 30.4.138)
- Ikram, Salima, Food for Eternity: What the Ancient Egyptians Ate & Drink. Part 1: Meat, Fish, Fowl, K.M.T. A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt 5/1, 1994, 24 (offering table)
- Naville, Edouard, The Temple of Deir el-Bahari. Part II. The Ebony Shrine. Northern Half of the Middle Platform, Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund 14, London 1896, 9-10, Pl(s). XXXVI, XXXVIII (vulture)
- Nelson, Harold Hayden, Key Plans Showing Locations of Theban Temple Decorations, Oriental Institute Publications 56, Chicago 1941, Pl(s). XXXVI [489]
- Nims, Charles F., Swaan, Wim, Thebes of the Pharaohs Pattern for Every City, London 1965, Pl(s). 6
- Moss, Rosalind L.B., Porter, Bertha, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings II. Theban Temples, 2nd ed., Oxford 1972, 354 [59]
- Rachewiltz, Boris de, La Valle dei Re e delle Regine, Forma e Colore 37, Firenze 1965, Pl(s). 34
- Schnittger, Marianne, Hatschepsut. Eine Frau als König von Ägypten, Mainz am Rhein 2008, 133, Fig(s). 98 (cryptogram frieze and vulture above the queen)
- Smith, W. Stevenson, The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt, Pelican History of Art 14, Harmondsworth 1958, 136, Pl(s). 92 [a], upper part and second row of offerings
- Sethe, Kurt, Urkunden der 18. Dynastie. Historisch-biographische Urkunden, Leipzig 1906, 280, text above Amun
- Sethe, Kurt, Urkunden der 18. Dynastie bearbeitet und übersetzt, Leipzig 1914, 128, text above Amun
- Szafrański, Zbigniew E., Queen Hatshepsut and her Temple 3500 years later, Warsaw 2001, Fig(s). on p. 246 (vulture)
- Wilkinson, Charles K., Egyptian Wall Paintings: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Collection of Facsimiles, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 36/4, 1979, 2 (facsimile of Nekhbet vulture)
- Witkowski, Maciej G., Certains aspects du culte des dieux funeraires aux temps de la Reine Hatshepsout à Deir el-Bahari, unpublished PhD thesis, Warsaw University, Varsovie 1983, 46-49, Pl(s). 7, C