daily ritual
bringing foot
jn.t rd
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
ebony shrine, The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, Cairo, CG 70001, JE 30740
ithyphallic Amun-Ra, Lord of Heaven (erased)
turned left, standing on a pedestal with left hand raised behind and holding nekhakha-flail
Amun's feather crown with a long ribbon, wide necklace and mummified lower part of the body
nekhakha-flail
shrine behind Amun-Ra
Hatshepsut (replaced with Thutmose II)
turned left, striding with head directed right, the right hand along the body and the right hand holding a brush
khat-headdress, false beard with a chin strap, wesekh-collar, loin-cloth with a triangular pleated apron and a sporran-like ornament flanked by two uraei, belt, bull's tail
brush in the left hand
Bibliography:
- Naville, Edouard, The Temple of Deir el-Bahari. Part II. The Ebony Shrine. Northern Half of the Middle Platform, Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund 14, London 1896, Pl(s). XXVIII
- Roeder, Günther, Catalogue Général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire. Nr. 70001-70050. Naos, Leipzig 1914, 8, Pl(s). 1, 71b