RC South Side Block 145

Red Chapel

last update: 28.11.2009

South Wall - Block No. 145

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

Coronation-scenes of the 7th register, South-Wall, blocks 23, 71, 95, 114, 145, 154, 261).

Here Hatshepsut is crowned with the Red Crown (n.t dSr.t). In front of the pr-wr the goddess Wadjet "who is in [Lady of the towns] Det and Pe" is depicted.

On the left side of the scene a Iun-mw-ef-priest, the one who "Purificates (Wab-priest) the pr-wr", supports ritually the coronation of the queen.

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