Thebes: West Bank, temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, Lower Terrace, Lower Portico South (Portico of Obelisks), south wall !. Dedun and personifications of southern foreign lands in four registers

Filip Taterka
December 30, 2019
Inscription above the god:

1ḏd md.w jn.n.(j) n.ṯ tȝ.w nb.(w) ḫȝs.wt rsj.w sḳr.(j) sn n.ṯ ẖʿk.w.jb jwn.tj.w tȝ-stj n ȝt.ṯ  2ḏd md.w rdj.n.(j) dm.ṯ tp.w.sn 3dj.f ʿnḫ ḏd wȝs nb mj rʿ 4[dd]wn ḫnt.j tȝ-stj

Names of foreign peoples in the first row of Nubian captives:

1[…] 2[…] 3[…]k 4[…] 5[…]

Names of foreign peoples in the second row of Nubian captives:

brbr[t] […] bwkȝk tkȝrrr jr[…]

Names of foreign peoples in the third row of Nubian captives:

1[…] 2[…] 3[…] 4mjw 5jȝrkȝkȝ

R
estoration inscription:

smȝ.wj mn.w jr.n nswt bjt.t [nb tȝ.wj] (wsr-mȝʿ.t-rʿ-stp-n-rʿ)| n jt.f jmn-rʿ 

Inscription above the god:

1Words spoken: ‘I have brought to you all the lands and southern foreign countries. I bind for you the rebellious of hearts – Nubians of the Bowland – at the moment of your wrath’. 2Words spoken: ‘I have let you cut off their heads’. 3May he give life, stability, and dominion! – 4[Ded]wen, the Foremost of the Bowland. 

Names of foreign peoples in the first row of Nubian captives:


1[…]. 2[…]. 3[…]k. 4[…]. 5[…].

Names of foreign peoples in the second row of Nubian captives:

1
Berber[et]. 2[…]. 3Bukak. 4Tekarerer. 5Ir[…].

Names of foreign peoples in the third row of Nubian captives:


1[…] 2[…] 4[…] 4Miu. 5Iarekaka.

Restoration inscription:

Restoration of the monument which the king of the Upper and Lower Egypt, [Lord of the Two Lands] (Weser-Ma‘at-Ra-setep-en-Ra)| has made for his father Amun-Ra.

Translated by Filip Taterka

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