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offering cold water
rdj.t ḳbḥw
Original: Hatshepsut | Erasures: Thutmose III (figure, names and titles of Hatshepsut) and Amarna period (figure, name and titles of Osiris) | Restorations: post-Amarna period (figure, name and titles of Osiris)
Thebes: West Bank, temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, Middle Terrace, Lower Shrine of Anubis, Hypostyle Hall, south wall
hypostyle hall
wall
Osiris, the Foremost of Westerners, Great God, Lord of Heaven (restored)
turned left, standing, mummified with hands on a chest holding heka-sceptre in the right hand and nekhakha-flail in the left hand
white crown with ostrich feathers, wide necklace, wristlets, all body mummified
heka-sceptre in the right hand and nekhakha-flail in the left hand
no attributes
Hatshepsut (erased)
turned right, kneeling, almost entire figure erased
unpreserved
unpreserved
Bibliography:
- Naville, Edouard, The Temple of Deir el-Bahari. Part II. The Ebony Shrine. Northern Half of the Middle Platform, Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund 14, London 1896, 9, Pl(s). XXXIV
- Nelson, Harold Hayden, Key Plans Showing Locations of Theban Temple Decorations, Oriental Institute Publications 56, Chicago 1941, Pl(s). XXXVI [486]
- Pawlicki, Franciszek, Skarby architektury starożytnego Egiptu: Królewskie świątynie w Deir el-Bahari, Warszawa 2000, 80, Fig(s). 68 (Osiris)
- Moss, Rosalind L.B., Porter, Bertha, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings II. Theban Temples, 2nd ed., Oxford 1972, 354 [57.2]
- Witkowski, Maciej G., Certains aspects du culte des dieux funeraires aux temps de la Reine Hatshepsout à Deir el-Bahari, unpublished PhD thesis, Warsaw University, Varsovie 1983, 41-43, Pl(s). 45, B