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offering bd-natron and nṯrj-natron
Title of the scene:
bd ṯȝ 4 nṯrj ṯȝ 4 jṯ r rȝ jṯ r ʿ pẖr ḥȝ sp 4 ḏd mdw sp 4 wʿb sp 2
Bd-natron four pellets, nṯrj-natron four pellets, taking to mouth, taking to arm, going around four times, words spoken four times: be clean, be clean
Dating:
Original: Thutmose III | Erasures: Amarna period (figure, name and epithets of Hathor) | Restorations: post-Amarna period (figure, name and epithets of Hathor)
Site:
Thebes: East Bank, Karnak, temple of Ptah, south chapel, south wall (KIU 2349)
chapel
inner wall
Hathor(?) (figure restored)
turned right, striding with the left arm extended forward and holding the was-sceptre and the right arm lowered along the body and holding the ankh-sign
long tunic
was-sceptre, ankh-sign
no attributes
Thutmose III
turned left, striding with both arms extended forward and holding pots with natron pellets in both hands(?)
loin-cloth with a triangular apron and a sporran-like ornament flanked by two uraei, belt, bull's tail
pots with natron pellets(?)
Bibliography:
- Biston-Moulin, Sébastien, Thiers, Christophe, Le temple de Ptah à Karnak 1. Relevé épigraphique, 2. Relevé photographique (Ptah, nos. 1–191), Bibliothèque générale 49, Le Caire 2016, 251 (vol. 1), 160, 165 (vol. 2), no. 184
- Legrain, George, Le temple de Ptah Rîs-anbou-f dans Thèbes (suite), Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Égypte III, 1902, 107
- Moss, Rosalind L.B., Porter, Bertha, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings II. Theban Temples, 2nd ed., Oxford 1972, 201 [30c]
