The small, one-room shrine located at the dead end of the valley was hewn in the rock and has a rectangular plan. It measures 0.98m of width and 1.58m of length, being 1.43m high at the entrance and 1.58m high at the back of the shrine. The entrance door is 0.32m deep and 1.71m wide.[1] According to A. Fakhry, who studied the place, the shrine was completed and decorated with good quality reliefs.[2]
In the vicinity of the shrine some rock inscriptions were carved. One of them, situated on the left of the shrine, gives the name of the shrine: rn n sḥ-nṯr Ḥwt-mn[3] without any other details and date. Another inscription can be attributed to Hatshepsut, although her name is not preserved, being carefully erased.[4] The text is a typical dedicatory inscription mentioning execution of sḥ-nṯr for Pakhet in the rock of this goddess.
Footnotes
- ^ 234: A New Speos from the Reign of Hatshepsut and Tuthmosis III at Beni-Ḥasan - - 1939 - Fakhry, Ahmed.
- ^ 234: A New Speos from the Reign of Hatshepsut and Tuthmosis III at Beni-Ḥasan - - 1939 - Fakhry, Ahmed.
- ^ 234: A New Speos from the Reign of Hatshepsut and Tuthmosis III at Beni-Ḥasan - - 1939 - Fakhry, Ahmed.
- ^ 234: A New Speos from the Reign of Hatshepsut and Tuthmosis III at Beni-Ḥasan - - 1939 - Fakhry, Ahmed.
Bibliography:
- Fakhry, Ahmed, A New Speos from the Reign of Hatshepsut and Tuthmosis III at Beni-Ḥasan, Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Égypte XXXIX, 1939, 709-725
- Chappaz, Jean-Luc, Bickel, Susanne, Missions épigraphiques du fonds de l'égyptologie de Genève au Spéos Artémidos, Bulletin de la Société d'égyptologie de Genève 12, 1988, 133
- Chappaz, Jean-Luc, Bickel, Susanne, Le Spéos Artémidos. Un temple de Pakhet en Moyenne-Égypte, Les Dossiers d’Archeologie 187S, 1993, 97
- Chabân, Mohammed Effendi, Fouilles à Achmounéîn, Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Égypte VIII, 1907 , 223 [III]
- Takács, Daniel, The Pakhet of Speos Artemidos and Wadi Batn el-Baqara, Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 48, 2019