[HatOb_2185] Block from the wall decoration of Chapelle Rouge with nome and pehu personifications

Katarzyna Kapiec

Object Category: Architectural element

Object Type: decorated block

Collection: Museum object

Museum: Open-Air Museum, Karnak

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Material: quartzite

Description: Block 33 from the first row of the north side. It represents three kneeling personifications of nome and pehus. The first one is a female personification of Behdet (Bḥdt). The next figure is a personification of pehu Wesetet (pḥw Wstt) of 14th nome of Upper Egypt. The last figure is only partly preserved on this block, the second part is on block 229. The name of pehu is not preserved.
All figures are oriented towards left.

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Dating: Hatshepsut/Thutmose III

Bibliography:

Burgos, Franck, Larché, François, La chapelle Rouge. Le sanctuaire de barque d’Hatshepsout. I. Fac-similés et photographies des scènes, Paris 2006, 25 no. 148
Lacau, Pierre, Chevrier, Henri, Une chapelle d’Hatshepsout à Karnak, Le Caire 1977, 89 no. 148

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[HatOb_2185] Block from the wall decoration of Chapelle Rouge with nome and pehu personifications

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