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offering menat-necklace
no title
Original: Hatshepsut | Erasures: Thutmose III (figure, names and titles of Hatshepsut) and Amarna period (figures, names and titles of Amun and Werethekau) | Restorations: post-Amarna period (figure, name and titles of Amun)
Thebes: West Bank, temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, Middle Terrace, Hathor Shrine, Vestibule, south wall
vestibule
wall
Amun, Lord of Thrones of Two Lands, King of Gods, Who is in Jpt-swt (restored)
turned left, enthroned with arms with hands extended forward, holding an ankh-sign in his left hand and was-sceptre in his right hand
feather crown with a long ribbon, divine beard, wide necklace, tunic with two shoulder straps, belt, armlets, wristlets and anklets
ankh-sign in the left hand and was-sceptre in the right hand
no attributes
Werethekau (restored)
turned right, standing with the left hand slightly forward and holding an ankh-sign and the right hand upraised and holding a menat-necklace
sun disk with a uraeus on her head, tripartite wig, long feather dress with two shoulder straps, armlets, wristlets and anklets
no requisites
ankh-sign in the left hand and menat-necklace in the right hand
Hatshepsut (erased)
the figure is completely erased
not preserved
no requisites
Bibliography:
- Karkowski, Janusz, Beaux, Nathalie, Majerus, Elizabeth, Pollin, Gaël, La chapelle d’Hathor. Temple d’Hatchepsout à Deir el-Bahari I. Vestibule et sanctuaires 3. Planches, Mémoires publiés par les membres de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale 129/3, Le Caire 2012, 32-37, Pl(s). 8, Fig(s). 21; D Ouret-hekaou; D Amon 1
- Myśliwiec, Karol, Eighteenth Dynasty before the Amarna Period, Iconography of Religion XVI.5, Leiden 1985, Pl(s). XXXIV.1
- Naville, Edouard, The Temple of Deir el-Bahari. Part IV. The Shrine of Hathor and the Southern Hall of Offerings, Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund 19, London 1901, 4-5, Pl(s). CI [right], erroneously described as the north wall and a coronation scene
- Nelson, Harold Hayden, Key Plans Showing Locations of Theban Temple Decorations, Oriental Institute Publications 56, Chicago 1941, Pl(s). XXXV [lower, 106]
- Ouda, Ahmed Mekawy, Did Werethekau 'Great of Magic' have a Cult? A Disjunction between Scholarly Opinions and Sources, in: Accetta, Kelly, Gonçalves, Pedro Lourenço, Pelt, W. Paul van, Fellinger, Renate, Musselwhite, Sarah, Current Research in Egyptology 2013. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Symposium, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, March 19-22, 2013, Oxford, Philadelphia 2014, 117, reference to Werethekau
- Pirelli, Rosanna, Some Considerations of the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, Annali Istituto Universitario Orientale Neapoli 54/4, 1994, 458
- Moss, Rosalind L.B., Porter, Bertha, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings II. Theban Temples, 2nd ed., Oxford 1972, 351 [37]
- Sethe, Kurt, Urkunden der 18. Dynastie. Historisch-biographische Urkunden, Leipzig 1906, 285 (90) a, speech of Werethekau
- Sethe, Kurt, Urkunden der 18. Dynastie bearbeitet und übersetzt, Leipzig 1914, 130, speech of Werethekau
- Leitz, Christian, Das Lexikon der ägyptischen Götter und Götterbezeichnungen. Band II: ʿ - b, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 111, Leuven, Paris, Dudley, MA 2002, 493, 495 [48], reference to Werethekau