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offering incense
Title of the scene:
jḥwt ʿ sp 4 r stp ḫpš n Jmn-Rʿ
striking four times in choice of meat from bull's foreleg for Amun-Ra
Dating:
Original: Hatshepsut | Erasures: Amarna period (figure, name and epithets of Amun-Ra) | Restorations: post-Amarna period (figure, name and epithets of Amun-Ra)
Site:
Thebes: Karnak, Central Karnak, northern obelisk of Hatshepsut, north face (KIU 3325)
obelisk
shaft face
Amun-Ra, Premordial of the Two Lands (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
Amun's feather crown on a base with a long ribbon, divine beard, wide necklace, jacket with two straps, armlets on both arms, wristlets on both wrists, plain loin-cloth, belt, bull's tail
was-sceptre, ankh-sign
no attributes
Hatshepsut
turned left, striding with the right arm extended forward and holding the sḫm-sceptre, and the left arm lowered along the body and holding the ankh-sign
shuty-crown on ram's horns and on a base, false beard, wide necklace, armlet on the left arm, wristlets on both wrists, loin-cloth with a triangular apron and a sporran-like ornament flanked by two uraei, belt, bull's tail
sḫm-sceptre
Bibliography:
- Lepsius, Carl Richard, Denkmäler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien III, Genève 1972, Pl(s). 22
- Rosellini, Ippolito, I monumenti dell’Egitto e della Nubia 4,1 : Monumenti storici, Pisa 1832, Pl(s). XXXIV
- Moss, Rosalind L.B., Porter, Bertha, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings II. Theban Temples, 2nd ed., Oxford 1972, 81-82
