RITE_119 Hatshepsut before Amun

Jadwiga Iwaszczuk
January 4, 2020

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king before god

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

Thebes: West Bank, temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, Upper Terrace, Complex of the Solar Cult, Vestibule (Night Sun Chapel), niche, north wall

niche

rear wall

Amun (name partly preserved)

turned right, striding with the left hand along the body holding was-sceptre and the right hand slightly extended forward and holding an ankh-sign

Amun's feather crown with a long ribbon, wide necklace, feather tunic with two shoulder straps, bull's tail, armlet on the left arm, anklets

ankh-sign in the left hand and was-sceptre in the right hand

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Hatshepsut (erased)

figure erased completely

unpreserved

unpreserved