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Red Chapel |
last update: 25.03.2008 |
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South Wall - Block No. 171 |
| Stone: red quartzite (origin - from the "Red Mountains" of Djebel Akhmar, an area near Heliopolis) |
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| Opet-Procession, the royal barque with the cult statues of Hatshepsut and Thutmosis III on the way back from the temple of Luxor to the temple of Karnak on the river Nile. |
| Both statues are represented in the heb-sed-robe sitting under a canopy which has the form of the upper-Egyptian shrine pr-wr. The two statues are shown sitting on a throne, whose side was decorated with the symbol of unification of the Two Lands. |
| The royal barque drags the large barque of Amun named "Userhat Amun" using a rope, which ends in a role before the statue of Hatshepsut. |
| In front of the canopy three standards are shown each is supported by an Ankh-, Djed- or Was-sign. On the tops two Upuaut-standards are shown and on the standard in the middle a pillow-like symbol ("Sd" = pillow; according to Hannig, Deutsch-Ägyptisch, Sp. 712). Below the first standard the side of the royal barque is decorated with an Udjat-eye. |
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