Fragments of several identical women holding sistrum and menat necklaces have been found at Deir el-Bahari. These representations were carved on sandstone, erased and recarved after the Amarna period. Proportions and depiction are here very similar to the msw nsw of Thutmose III at Karnak, where they appear behind the king as he dedicates splendid off erings to Amun-Re on the north wall of the corridor with the Annals. Both scenes are studied and their meaning explored. The fragments, certainly from Thutmose III temple at Deir el-Bahari, may have come from his Hathor shrine.
SELECTION DES FRAGMENTSLorsque nous avons entrepris l'étude de la chapelle d'Hathor de Thoutmosis III à Deir el-Bahari, un certain nombre de fragments épars fut identifi é, avec l'aide précieuse de la mission du temple de Thoutmosis III, en particulier de Monika Dolińska. Il existait en eff et un certain nombre de fragments en grès qui, par leur facture, ne pouvaient appartenir au temple de Mentouhotep, et par leur matière, ne semblaient pas provenir des temples d'Hatchepsout et de Thoutmosis III, dont les bas-reliefs sont principalement en calcaire.
Numerous botanical remains have been found in a recently discovered foundation deposit of Tuthmosis III, in his Hathor shrine at Deir el-Bahari. Identification of 12 plants (cereals, fruits, branches and leaves) is proposed and the exceptional diversity of such finds is considered in relation to the known botanical finds from foundation deposits prior to Tuthmosis III.
The newel posts of the first ramp had lion representations, those of the second one were decorated with composite falcon statues. It is the purpose of this article to study the surviving architectural elements of the ramp newel posts in detail and to explore the function of these elements in Hatshepsut’s temple cosmology. Rw.ty, the four seated lions of the first ramp, are guarding the passage from land to the intermediate level of the temple, “begetting” Horus the king, allowing him to rise in life like the sun in its daily resurrection trip, and this forever and ever. In turn, the falcon god of the second ramp hovers in protection, as witness and helper in the passage to the third and highest level of the temple, where the king will achieve full resurrection through the Amun sanctuary and fly up to the sky as a falcon in its name of MAa.t-kA-Ra. The cartouche raised by the anx sign on the first ramp finds an echo in the Sn sign held by the falcon on the second ramp: they both tie and establish the king into his solar renewal destiny, helped by the Dual-lions and Horus of Behedet, lion and falcon from earth to heaven.
The Thutmosis III' « cabinet de curiosités ».
Pharaoh Thutmosis III had the walls of two rooms in the Amon-Rê temple at Karnak decorated with reliefs representing different animals, but above all numerous vegetables. Almost all these plants have been identified : 64, called «foreign », must have been observed during the expeditions led by the pharaoh in the Near East, but 265, called «extraordinary », come from the exotic areas of Africa and Asia : 64,5 9c belong to a teratologic type, whereas 29 % are characterized by a mode of reproduction considered as exceptional by the Egyptians. Placed in a particularly holy place of the temple, these non-narrative reliefs are a tribute to the divinity : they show the diversity of the Creation under its rarest aspects. Thus, they foreshadow the 16th and 17th centuries « cabinets de curiosités ».
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