RITE_25 Enthroned Hatshepsut in front of an offering table with an offering list, before her Iunmutef

Ritual category: -

Ritual type: royal offering table scene

Title of the scene: ḥtp-dj-[Jmn] n nswt bjtj Mȝʿ.t-kȝ-Rʿ, [dbḥ].t-ḥtp

Site: Thebes: West Bank, temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, Upper Terrace, Main Sanctuary of Amun, Bark Hall, niche C, east wall

Architectural part: niche

Architectural element: long wall

Recipient(s): Hatshepsut (erased)

Position of the recipient(s): turned left, enthroned with both arms extended forward with hands directed downwards

Costume of the recipient(s): nemes-headdress, false beard, sendyt-kilt, bull's tail

Requisites of the recipient(s): no requisites

Attributes of the recipient(s): no attributes

Officiant(s): Iunmutef, the Purifier of per-wer (restored)

Position of the officiant(s): turned right, striding with the left hand along the body and holding a corner of the leopard skin and the right hand in the gesture of invocation

Costume of the officiant(s): leopard skin

Requisites of the officiant(s): no requisites

Bibliography:

Budzanowski, Mikołaj, Nisze kultowe na Górnym Tarasie świątyni Hatszepsut w Deir el-Bahari. Aspekty kultu królewskiego w Świątyni Milionów Lat Ḏsr-ḏsrw w okresie panowania królowej Hatszepsut, unpublished PhD thesis, Jagiellonian University, Kraków 2004, 87, Pl(s). 65A, 65B (Hatshepsut)
Duemichen, Johannes, Historische Inschriften altägyptischer Denkmäler. Zweite Folge, nebst einigen geographischen und mythologischen Inschriften, Leipzig 1869, Pl(s). V [d, c] (offering list, incomplete)
Karkowski, Janusz, Hatshepsut Temple, Epigraphic Mission 1996, Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean VIII (Reports 1996), 1997, 52, Fig(s). 3
Moss, Rosalind L.B., Porter, Bertha, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings II. Theban Temples, 2nd ed., Oxford 1972, 366 (136a)
Tefnin, Roland, La statuaire d’Hatshepsout. Portrait royal et politique sous la 18e dynastie, Monumenta Aegyptiaca 4, Bruxelles 1979, Pl(s). XIVa (Hatshepsut)