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offering cool water
Title of the scene:
rdj.t ḳbḥw jr.f dj ʿnḫ ḏ.t
Offering cool water, he did it being alive forever
Dating:
Original: Thutmose III | Erasures: Amarna period (figure, name and epithets of Ptah) | Restorations: post-Amarna period (figure, name and epithets of Ptah)
Site:
Thebes: East Bank, Karnak, temple of Ptah, north chapel, south wall (KIU 2338)
chapel
inner wall
Ptah, Lord of [Maa}t (name and figure restored)
turned right, standing in the shrine with both arms extended forward and holding the was-sceptre and djed-sceptre in both hands
tight-fitting cap, straight beard, enveloping mummiform garment with a stiff upper edge along the back of the neck
was-sceptre with djed-sign
no attributes
Thutmose III
turned left, striding with both arms extended forward and holding a nw-vase in each hand
khat-headdress, false beard, wide necklace, loin-cloth with a triangular apron and a sporran-like ornament flanked by two uraei, belt, bull's tail
nw-vases
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, 244-245 (vol. 1), 158, 168 (vol. 2), no. 174
- Legrain, George, Le temple de Ptah Rîs-anbou-f dans Thèbes (suite), Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Égypte III, 1902, 106
- Moss, Rosalind L.B., Porter, Bertha, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings II. Theban Temples, 2nd ed., Oxford 1972, 201 [28c, 1]
