Thebes: West Bank, temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, Lower Terrace, Lower Portico South (Portico of Obelisks), west wall 6. Thutmose III running with mks-staff and nḫḫȝ-flail in front of goddess Meret (name unpreserved, restored)

Filip Taterka
December 30, 2019
Inscription in front of the king:

[…] ḏd wȝs nb snb nb ȝw.t-jb nb.(t) ḫr.f

Inscription above the king:

1[…] [nb] jr.t ḫt (mn-ḫpr-kȝ-rʿ)| 2[zȝ rʿ n] ẖt.f (ḏḥwtj-ms-nfr-ḫpr)| 3[…] m […]

Short inscription behind the king:

sȝ ʿnḫ ḏd wȝs ḥʿ.f nb

Longer inscription behind the king:

[w]nn.f ḫnt.(j)-kȝ.w ʿnḫ.w nb.(w) ḫʿ m nswt bjt.j šmʿ mḥ.w mj rʿ

Title of the scene:

d(w) sḫt zp 4

Inscription in front of the god:

[…] m ḥtp zȝ.(j) n ẖt.(j) mr.jj.(j)

Inscription in front of the goddess:

ḏd md.w jj.(j) jn.(j) jj.(j) jn.(j)

Inscription behind the god:

dj.n.(j) n.ṯ jr.t ḥḥ.w m ḥb.w-sd ʿšʿ wr.[t] mj rʿ

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nscription under the plants:

sȝ ʿnḫ wȝḏ ḏt


Inscription below the divine bird:

dj.s ʿnḫ wȝs mj rʿ

Restoration inscription:

smȝ.(wj) mn.w jr.n zȝ rʿ nb ḫʿ.w (rʿ-[ms-sw-mr]-jmn)| n jt.f jmn-[rʿ] nb ns.wt tȝ.wj
Inscription in front of the king:

[…] all stability and dominion, all health, and all joy of heart of his.

Inscription above the king:

1[…] [lord] of rituals (Men-kheper-ka-Ra)|, 2[son of Ra of] his body (Thutmose-nefer-kheper)| 3[…] in […].

Short inscription behind the king:

Protection, life, stability, and dominion around him completely.

Longer inscription behind the king:

He [i]s the foremost of the kas of all the living, appearing as king of the Upper and Lower Egypt, of the South and the North, like Ra.

Title of the scene:

Giving fields 4 times.

Inscription in front of the god:

[…] in peace, my son of my body, my beloved.

Inscription in front of the goddess:

Words spoken: ‘I come and I bring, I come and I bring’.

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nscription behind the god:

I have let you celebrate very many millions of the sed-festivals, like Ra.

Inscription under the plants:

Protection, life, and flourishing, forever.

Inscription below the divine bird:

May she give life and dominion, like Ra!

Restoration inscription:

Restoration, which the son of Ra, lord of the crowns (Ra[messes[mer]-Amun)| has made for his father Amun-[Ra], Lord of the Thrones of the Two Lands.
Translated by Filip Taterka

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