Red Chapel

last update: 25.03.2008

South Wall - Block No. 70


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

Offerings to the Ennead, Hatshepsut is shown offering Sat-bred (as written below her hands) to the goddess Nut, "Lady of the Heaven".


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

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Copyright: Dr. Karl H. Leser (Iufaa)