Red Chapel

last update: 27.08.2006

West Gate - Block No. 173


Stone: red quartzite (origin - from the "Red Mountains" of Djebel Akhmar, an area near Heliopolis)

Offering scene, the block shows on the right the "Daughter of Ra" Hatshepsut Khenemet-Amun who sacrifices three bulls before the ithyphallic Amun (left). Behind her her Ka is depicted in the form of a Ka-standard.


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Copyright: Dr. Karl H. Leser (Iufaa)