RITE_23 Hatshepsut censing and pouring cold water before ithyphallic Amun-Ra

Ritual category: daily ritual

Ritual type: purification and censing

Title of the scene: jr.t snṯr ḳbḥw

Site: Thebes: West Bank, temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, Middle Terrace, Lower Shrine of Anubis, found on the roof, probably from the Main Sanctuary

Object: ebony shrine, The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, Cairo, CG 70001, JE 30740

Recipient(s): ithyphallic Amun, Lord of Heaven (name and figure erased)

Position of the recipient(s): turned left, standing on a pedestal with left hand raised behind and holding nekhakha-flail

Costume of the recipient(s): Amun's feather crown with a long ribbon, wide necklace and mummified lower part of the body

Requisites of the recipient(s): nekhakha-flail

Attributes of the recipient(s): unpreserved

Officiant(s): Hatshepsut (replaced with Thutmose II)

Position of the officiant(s): turned right, striding with both hands raised, the right hand holding an kebehu-vase and pouring water on two small offering tables and holding a snṯr-vessel in the left hand

Costume of the officiant(s): nemes-headdress, wesekh-collar, pectoral, loin-cloth with a triangular pleated apron and a sporran-like ornament flanked by two uraei, belt, bull's tail

Requisites of the officiant(s): kebehu-vase in the right hand and snṯr-vessel in the left hand