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censing
Title of the scene:
jr.t snṯr wdn n ḥtp-nṯr t ḥnḳ.t kȝ ȝpd jr.f dj ʿnḫ mj Rʿ
Censing (and) offering god's offering of bread, beer, cattle (and) fowl, he did being given all life like Ra
Dating:
Original: Thutmose III | Erasures: Amarna period (figure, name and epithets of Ptah) | Restorations: post-Amarna period (figure, name and epithets of Ptah)
Site:
Thebes: East Bank, Karnak, temple of Ptah, courtyard, north wall (KIU 270)
chapel
inner wall
Ptah (name and figure restored)
turned left, standing in the shrine with both arms extended forward and holding the was-sceptre and the djed-sceptre in both hands
tight-fitting cap, straight beard, enveloping mummiform garment with a stiff upper edge along the back of the neck
was-sceptre with djed-sign
no attributes
Thutmose III
turned right, striding with both arms extended forward and holding an incense pot in the left hand and pouring incense pellets into the pot with his right hand
khepresh-crown, wide necklace, loin-cloth with a triangular apron and a sporran-like ornament flanked by two uraei, belt, bull's tail
incense pot
Bibliography:
- Biston-Moulin, Sébastien, Thiers, Christophe, Le temple de Ptah à Karnak 1. Relevé épigraphique, 2. Relevé photographique (Ptah, nos. 1–191), Bibliothèque générale 49, Le Caire 2016, 224-225 (vol. 1), 149, 153 (vol. 2), no. 161
- Legrain, George, Le temple de Ptah Rîs-anbou-f dans Thèbes (suite), Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Égypte III, 1902, 104-105
- Moss, Rosalind L.B., Porter, Bertha, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings II. Theban Temples, 2nd ed., Oxford 1972, 201 [25a]
