Gebel es-Silsilah: Shrine 6 (Ah-mes)

Shrine 6 was entirely cut in the rock and has a typical plan: it consists of a single room with a flat ceiling and a niche for a statue in the rear wall. The door is damaged in the lower part. The decoration of the shrine was almost finished, only north part of the ceiling remained prepared for decoration which had never been made. The main room is 2.2m wide and 1.75m deep, the height of the room is 1.75m. It has a partially decorated ceiling, the decoration, although seriously damaged in lower parts, is preserved on the walls. The scenes of the main room were prepared with the whitewash and painted, the background of scenes was yellow and surrounded by a block border painted yellow, green, black and blue. Only the text of the door frame of the niche was carved. The owner of the shrine, Ah-mes, was identified with Ah-mes Pen-iaty,^[1] but R.A. Caminos and T.H.G. James were opposed to it, arguing that the owner of shrine 6 bore high titles (jrj-pʿt, ḥȝtj-ʿ and high priestly titles) that were never attested for Pen-iaty.^[2]