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offering water from dšr.t-bowls
Title of the scene:
mw dšr.t pẖr ḥȝ sp 4 ḏd mdw sp 4 wʿb sp 2
water from dšr.t-bowls, going around four times, words spoken four times: be pure, be pure
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, east face (KIU 3348)
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 stripes, 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 both arms extended forward and holding a tray with four dšr.t-bowls
shyty-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
tray with four dšr.t-bowls
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). XXXII
- 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
