festival of bringing obelisks to Karnak
offering obelisks
no title
Original: Hatshepsut | Erasures: Thutmose III (figure, names 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, Lower Terrace, Lower Portico South (Portico of Obelisks), west wall
portico
wall
Amun (name unpreserved, restored)
turned left, striding with the right hand slightly extended forward and holding was-sceptre and the left hand along the body and holding an ankh-sign
divine beard, wide necklace, feather tunic with two shoulder straps, bull's tail
ankh-sign in the left hand and was-sceptre with shen- and ankh-signs in the right hand
no attributes
Hatshepsut (erased)
turned right, striding with the left hand along the body and holding a hedj-mace and the right hand extended forward and holding a mekes-staff
loin-cloth with a triangular apron, bull's tail
the left hand along the body and holding a hedj-mace and the right hand holding a mekes-staff
Bibliography:
- Karkowski, Janusz, Deir el-Bahari 1972-1973 (travaux égyptologiques), Études et Travaux IX, 1976, 257, Fig(s). 5
- Naville, Edouard, The Temple of Deir el-Bahari. Part VI. The Lower Terrace, Additions and Plans, Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund 29, London 1908, 6, Pl(s). CLVI
- Nelson, Harold Hayden, Key Plans Showing Locations of Theban Temple Decorations, Oriental Institute Publications 56, Chicago 1941, Pl(s). XXXIV [lower, 4]
- Niedziółka, Dariusz, On the Obelisks Mentioned in the Northampton Stela of Djehuti, Director of the Treasury during Hatshepsut’s Reign, in: Hawass, Zahi, Pinch-Brock, Lyla, Egyptology at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century. Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Egyptologists. Cairo, 2000. Volume 2. History. Religion, Cairo, New York 2002, 409
- Moss, Rosalind L.B., Porter, Bertha, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings II. Theban Temples, 2nd ed., Oxford 1972, 342 [6.1]
- Werbrouck, Marcelle, Le temple d’Hatshepsout à Deir el-Bahari, Bruxelles 1949, 45, Fig(s). 4