[HatOb_2188] Block from the wall decoration of Chapelle Rouge with 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 270 from the first row of the north side. It represents three kneeling Nile personifications of pehus. The first one is only partly preserved on this block in its rear part, the front part is on the block 294. It is a personification of pehu Maa (pḥw mȝʿ) of 12th nome of Lower Egypt. The second figure is a personification of pehu, whose name is not known from other sources. The last figure is only partly preserved on this block in its front part. All figures are oriented towards the left.

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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, 26 no. 148
Chevrier, Henri, Lacau, Pierre, Une chapelle d’Hatshepsout à Karnak, Le Caire 1977, 90 no. 148