RITE_7 Hatshepsut before Hathor-cow in a shrine suckling Hatshepsut and protecting her, in front of Hathor an offering table

Ritual category: offering ritual

Ritual type: great offering

Title of the scene: rdj.t mȝʿ.t ʿȝ.t [...]

Site: Thebes: West Bank, temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, Middle Terrace, Hathor Shrine, Hypostyle Hall I, north wall

Architectural part: hypostyle hall

Architectural element: wall

Recipient(s): Hathor-cow, [Lady of] Dendera, Who is Upon Thebes, the Foremost of Djeser-djeseru [...] (restored)

Position of the recipient(s): Hathor-cow turned right, suckling kneeling Hatshepsut and protecting Hatshepsut standing in front of her

Costume of the recipient(s): menat-necklace

Requisites of the recipient(s): shrine of Hathor

Attributes of the recipient(s): no attributes

Officiant(s): Hatshepsut (erased)

Position of the officiant(s): turned left, striding with the left hand extended forward and holding a staff and the right hand raised in the gesture of invocation

Costume of the officiant(s): khepresh-crown

Requisites of the officiant(s): staff in the left hand

Bibliography:

Karkowski, Janusz, Hatshepsut Temple, Epigraphic Documentation, Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean IX (Reports 1997), 1998, 45, 46, Fig(s). 2
Kühn, Thomas, Der Terrassentempel der Hatschepsut in Deir el-Bahari, Kemet - das schwarze Land. Ägypten 8.2, 1999, 27
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, Pl(s). LXXXVII
Moss, Rosalind L.B., Porter, Bertha, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings II. Theban Temples, 2nd ed., Oxford 1972, 350 [25]
Werbrouck, Marcelle, Le temple d’Hatshepsout à Deir el-Bahari, Bruxelles 1949, Pl(s). XLIV