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striking four times
Title of the scene:
jḥwt ʿ sp 4 r stp ḫpš [...]
striking four times in choice of meat from bull's foreleg [...]
Dating:
Original: Thutmose III | Erasures: Amarna period (figure, name and epithets of Amun-Ra and Ptah) | Restorations: post-Amarna period (figure, name and epithets of Amun-Ra and Ptah)
Site:
Thebes: East Bank, Karnak, temple of Ptah, courtyard, east wall (KIU 988)
hypostyle hall
inner wall
[A]mun[-Ra], Lord of Thrones of the Two Lands (restored)
turned left, striding with the right arm extended forward and holding the was-sceptre and the left arm lowered along the body and holding the ankh-sign
Amun's feather crown on a base with a long ribbon, divine beard, wide necklace, tunic with two stripes, belt, bull's tail
no requisites
was-sceptre and ankh-sign
Ptah, Lord of Maat (restored)
turned left, standing in the shrine with both arms extended forward and holding the was-sceptre and the djed-sceptre in both hands
tight-fitting cap, straight beard, enveloping mummiform garment with a stiff upper edge along the back of the neck
no requisites
was-sceptre with djed-sign
Thutmose III
turned right, striding with both arms extended forward and holding the sḫm-sceptre in the right hand and the mks-staff and the ḥḏ-sceptre in the right hand
atef-crown, false-beard, wide necklace, jacket with one stripe, sšd-circlet, loin-cloth with a triangular apron and a sporran-like ornament flanked by two uraei, belt, bull's tail
sḫm-sceptre, mks-staff and ḥḏ-sceptre
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, 210-211 (vol. 1), 128, 141 (vol. 2), no. 145
- Legrain, George, Le temple de Ptah Rîs-anbou-f dans Thèbes (suite), Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Égypte III, 1902, 103
- Moss, Rosalind L.B., Porter, Bertha, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings II. Theban Temples, 2nd ed., Oxford 1972, 200 [20, I]
- Sethe, Kurt, Urkunden der 18. Dynastie bearbeitet und übersetzt, Leipzig 1914, 574,3-5
