daily ritual
purification
mw dšr.t pẖr ḥȝ sp 4 ḏd mdw sp 4 Wsjr wʿb sp 2
Original: Hatshepsut | Erasures: Thutmose III (figure, names and titles of Hatshepsut) and Amarna period (figure of Osiris)
Thebes: West Bank, temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, Upper Terrace, Upper Shrine of Anubis, east wall
sanctuary
long wall
Osiris, the Foremost of Westerners (erased)
turned right, standing on a podium, most of the figure is erased
figure mummified, no costume
nekhakha-flail
no attributes
Hatshepsut (erased)
turned left, striding, with both hands extended and holding desheret-vase, figure entirely erased
plain loin-cloth with a triangular front
desheret-vase in both hands
Bibliography:
- Naville, Edouard, The Temple of Deir el-Bahari. Part I. The North-Western End of the Upper Platform, Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund 13, London 1895, 9, 10, Pl(s). X–XI
- Nelson, Harold Hayden, Key Plans Showing Locations of Theban Temple Decorations, Oriental Institute Publications 56, Chicago 1941, Pl(s). XXXVI [419]
- Moss, Rosalind L.B., Porter, Bertha, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings II. Theban Temples, 2nd ed., Oxford 1972, 363 [120.3]
- 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Maciej G., Certains aspects du culte des dieux funeraires aux temps de la Reine Hatshepsout à Deir el-Bahari, unpublished PhD thesis, Warsaw University, Varsovie 1983, 154–155, Pl(s). 48, S