RITE_113 Hatshepsut offering white bread before ithyphallic Amun-Ra

Ritual category: daily ritual

Ritual type: offering white bread

Title of the scene: sḳ t ḥḏ

Dating: Original: Hatshepsut  |  Erasures: Thutmose III (figure, names and titles of Hatshepsut) and Amarna period (figure, name and titles of Amun-Ra)  |  Restorations: Thutmose III (figure, names and titles of Thutmose II) and post-Amarna period (figure, name and titles of Amun-Ra)

Site: Thebes: West Bank, temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, above the Lower Shrine of Anubis

Object: ebony shrine, The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, Cairo, CG 70001, JE 30740

Recipient(s): ithyphallic Amun-Ra (restored)

Position of the recipient(s): turned left, standing on a pedestal with left hand raised behind and holding nekhakha-flail

Costume of the recipient(s): Amun's feather crown with a long ribbon, wide necklace and mummified lower part of the body

Requisites of the recipient(s): nekhakha-flail

Attributes of the recipient(s): no attributes

Officiant(s): Hatshepsut (replaced with Thutmose II)

Position of the officiant(s): turned right, striding with both hands raised, the left hand extended forward and the right hand holding a white bread

Costume of the officiant(s): nemes-headdress, wesekh-collar, loin-cloth with a triangular apron and a sporran-like ornament flanked by two uraei, belt, bull's tail

ankh-sign in the left hand and a white bread in the right hand