[HatOb_2170] Block from the wall decoration of Chapelle Rouge with kneeling personification

Katarzyna Kapiec

November 4, 2024

Object Category: Architectural element

Object Type: decorated block

Collection: Museum object

Museum: Open-Air Museum, Karnak

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Material: quartzite

Description: Block 230 from the first row of the west facade, located to the left of the entrance door (the first from the corner of the wall). It represents a kneeling Nile personification of the water in the pool or canal (nwy) and a small fragment of another kneeling Nile personification in front of the preserved one. Both orietned towards the right.

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Dating: Hatshepsut/Thutmose III

Bibliography:

Larché, François, Burgos, Franck, La chapelle Rouge. Le sanctuaire de barque d’Hatshepsout. I. Fac-similés et photographies des scènes, Paris 2006, 16 no. 150
Lacau, Pierre, Chevrier, Henri, Une chapelle d’Hatshepsout à Karnak, Le Caire 1977, 91 no. 150