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offering incense pellets
Title of the scene:
snṯr ṯȝ 5 snṯr ṯȝ 1
Incense five pellets, incense one pellet
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, west face (KIU 3345)
obelisk
shaft's face
Amun-Ra, Lord of Heaven (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, 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
Thutmose I
turned right, striding with both arms extended forward and holding a pot with five incense pellets in the left hand and a pot with one incense pellet in the right hand
atef-crown on ram's horns and on a short wig, 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
pot with five incense pellets and pot with one incense pellet
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). XXXIII
- 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
