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Red Chapel |
last update: 14.11.2009 |
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South Wall - Block No. 300 |
| Stone: red quartzite (origin - from the "Red Mountains" of Djebel Akhmar, an area near Heliopolis) |
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Opet procession from the temple of Karnak to the temple of Luxor
along the 6 way-stations (barque shrines) of Hatshepsut - 1st way-station,
at the 1. station Thutmosis III welcomes the barque with offering incense,
thereafter, the barque is put on the pedestal inside the shrine;
on the left side of the way-station Hatshepsut is depicted offering incense in front of the barque (see right scene on block 26); |
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The name of the 1. station
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| Note(s): the Osiride figures of Hatshepsut and her cartouche (above her right figure) are more or less intact, probably, the block was damaged after the chapel had been dismantled |