New Dipinti in the Birth Portico of the Hatshepsut Temple at Deir el-Bahari

Abstract

The subject of the present paper are two hitherto unpublished hieratic dipinti from the Birth Portico of the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari. One of them had been written on the north wall of the portico and can be related precisely to the second phase of restoration undertaken in the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut in the post-Amarna period, and more specifi cally to the reign of Ramesses II. The other inscription, written on the south wall of the portico, can be ascribed to a certain Minnakht and his colleague Ired, presumably builders of the temple. In addition, a comment on other dipinti on the walls of the portico and its pillars has been included.

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“…394 Van Siclen, 1991, 34-36. 395 Barakat, 1981Barakat, 1983; on the identification of the temple, see Iwaszczuk, 2011, 23. 396 Guksch, 1994 campaign under the joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III which was led by the latter.…”