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Ritual type: offering sṯj ḥb- and ḥknw-oils
Title of the scene: rdj.t sṯj ḥb ḥknw
Dating: Original: Hatshepsut | Erasures: Thutmose III (figure, names and titles of Hatshepsut) and Amarna period (figure, name and titles of Amun-Ra-Kamutef) | Restorations: Thutmose III (figure, names and titles of Thutmose II) post-Amarna period (figure, name and titles of Amun-Ra-Kamutef)
Thebes: West Bank, temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, Upper Terrace, Southern Room of Amun, west wall
room
long wall
ithyphallic Amun-Ra-Kamutef, Great God, Lord of Heaven (restored)
Position of the recipient(s): turned right, standing on a pedestal with right hand raised behind and holding nekhakha-flail
Amun's feather crown with a long ribbon, divine beard, mummified lower part of the body, armlet and wristlet
Requisites of the recipient(s): nekhakha-flail
shrine at the back
Hatshepsut (replaced with Thutmose II) and her ka
Position of the officiant(s):
Hatshepsut: turned left, striding with both hands extended forward and holding four vases with sṯj ḥb- and ḥknw-oils in both hands
ka of Hatshepsut: turned left, striding with the left hand along the body holding an ankh-sign and an ostrich feather and the right hand holding a staff
Costume of the officiant(s):
Hatshepsut: crown with two stright feathers, wesekh-collar, bull's tail
ka of Hatshepsut: Horus name in serekh on a ka-sign on its head, nemes-headdress, divine beard, wesekh-collar, plain loin-cloth, belt, wristlets
Requisites of the officiant(s):
Hatshepsut: four vases with sṯj ḥb- and ḥknw-oils in both hands
ka of Hatshepsut: ankh-sign and an ostrich feather the right hand and staff with a royal head at the top in the right hand
Bibliography:
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- Lepsius, Carl Richard, Denkmäler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien III. Text, Leipzig 1900, 111 [middle] (name of Amun)
- Myśliwiec, Karol, Le portrait royal dans le bas-relief du Nouvel Empire, Travaux du Centre d'Archéologie Méditerranéenne de l'Academie Polonaise des Sciences 18, Warsaw 1976, 49, Fig(s). 74
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- Uchman-Laskowska, Izabela, Conservation and Restoration of Wall Painting in the Southern Chamber of Amun of the Hatshepsut Temple in Deir el-Bahari, Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean XIX (Reports 2007), 2010, Fig(s). 3 (face of the royal ka)