daily ritual
offering incense
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Original: Hatshepsut | Erasures: Thutmose III (names and titles of Hatshepsut) and Amarna period (figure, name and titles of Amun-Ra) | Restorations: post-Amarna period (figure, name and titles of Amun-Ra)
Thebes: West Bank, temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, Upper Terrace, Main Sanctuary of Amun, Statue Room, south wall
sanctuary
long wall
Amun-Ra, King of Gods, Who is in the Midst of Jpt-swt (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
Amun's feather crown with a long ribbon, divine beard, wide necklace, tunic with two shoulder straps, belt, bull's tail
ankh-sign in the left hand and was-sceptre in the right hand
no attributes
Hatshepsut (name erased)
turned left, striding with the right hand along the body and holding an ankh-sign and the left hand holding a vessel with one ball of incense
khat-headddress, wesekh-collar, loin-cloth with a triangular pleated apron and a sporran-like ornament flanked by two uraei, belt, bull's tail
ankh-sign in the right hand and vessel with one ball of incense in the left hand
Bibliography:
- Ćwiek, Andrzej, Red, yellow and pink. Ideology of skin hues at Deir el-Bahari, Fontes Archaeologici Posnanienses. Annales Musei Archaeologici Posnaniensis 43, 2007, 37, Fig(s). 7
- Gilbert, Pierre Jean Jacques, Le sens des portraits intacts d’Hatshepsout à Deir el Bahari, Chronique d'Égypte XXVIII/56, 1953, 220, Fig(s). 17
- Nelson, Harold Hayden, Key Plans Showing Locations of Theban Temple Decorations, Oriental Institute Publications 56, Chicago 1941, Pl(s). XXXVI [316]
- Pawlicki, Franciszek, Skarby architektury starożytnego Egiptu: Królewskie świątynie w Deir el-Bahari, Warszawa 2000, 68, Fig(s). 58 (face of Hatshepsut)
- Moss, Rosalind L.B., Porter, Bertha, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings II. Theban Temples, 2nd ed., Oxford 1972, 367 [139]
- Sankiewicz, Marta, The iconography of co-rule at Deir el-Bahari: Hatshepsut and Tuthmosis III in the Statue Room of the Main Sanctuary of Amun, Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean XXIV/2 (Special Studies. Deir el-Bahari Studies), 2015, Fig(s). 1 [left]
- Szafrański, Zbigniew E., Deir el-Bahari, Temple of Hatshepsut, in: Laskowska-Kusztal, Ewa, Seventy Years of Polish Archaeology in Egypt, Warsaw 2007, 102 [upper] (head of Hatshepsut)
- Szafrański, Zbigniew E., King Hatshepsut from the Deir el-Bahari Temple, in: Kousoulis, Panagiotis, Lazaridis, Nikolaos, Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Egyptologists, University of the Aegean, Rhodes 22–29 May 2008 I, Leuven, Paris, Bristol, CT 2015, Fig(s). 1