Red Chapel

last update: 16.11.2007

Santuary, North Wall - Block-No. 292


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


The block shows in the center Hatshepsut offering before the ithyphallic Amun-Ra, Lord of Heaven. Behind Hatshepsut the God's wife and some priests have entered the temple.

 
 

 

Note(s): the figure of Hatschepsut was deliberately destroyed

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Copyright: Dr. Karl H. Leser (Iufaa)