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pouring out sand
Title of the scene:
wšȝ šʿy jr.f dj ʿnḫ mj Rʿ ḏ.t
Pouring out sand, what he made being given life like Ra forever
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, north chapel, west wall (KIU 2348)
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
sun disk between cow's horns, circlet with uraeus, tripartite long wig, wide necklace, long tunic
was-sceptre with djed-sign
no attributes
Thutmose III
turned left, striding with both arms extended forward and holding a sand pot in the right hand and the left arm lowered along the body and holding the ankh-sign
nemes-headdress, false beard, wide necklace, loin-cloth with a triangular apron and a sporran-like ornament flanked by two uraei, belt, bull's tail
incense pot
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, 256 (vol. 1), 173 (vol. 2), no. 183
- 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 [30a]
