daily ritual
offering natron
bd ṯȝ 5 šmʿw pẖr r rȝ ʿ ḥȝ sp 4 ḏd mdw sp 4 wʿb sp 2 Jmn-Rʿ, nṯrj ṯȝ 5 šmʿw pẖr r rȝ ʿ ḥȝ sp 4 ḏd mdw sp 4 wʿb sp 2 Jmn-Rʿ
Dating: Original: Hatshepsut | Erasures: Amarna period (names and titles of Amun-Ra) | Restorations: post-Amarna (names and titles of Amun-Ra)
Thebes: West Bank, temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, Upper Terrace, Main Sanctuary of Amun, Statue Room, north wall
room
long wall
Amun-Ra (not represented)
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Thutmose III
turned left, striding with both hands holding a vessel with five balls of natron
Costume of the officiant(s): nemes-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
vessel with five balls of natron in both hands
Bibliography:
- Ćwiek, Andrzej, Red, yellow and pink. Ideology of skin hues at Deir el-Bahari, Fontes Archaeologici Posnanienses. Annales Musei Archaeologici Posnaniensis 43, 2007, 38, Fig(s). 8
- Pawlicki, Franciszek, Skarby architektury starożytnego Egiptu: Królewskie świątynie w Deir el-Bahari, Warszawa 2000, 46–47, Fig(s). 38, 40
- Moss, Rosalind L.B., Porter, Bertha, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings II. Theban Temples, 2nd ed., Oxford 1972, 367, [141]
- Sankiewicz, Marta, The iconography of co-rule at Deir el-Bahari: Hatshepsut and Tuthmosis III in the Statue Room of the Main Sanctuary of Amun, Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean XXIV/2 (Special Studies. Deir el-Bahari Studies), 2015, Fig(s). 1 [right]
