Door lintel from Satet temple

Architectural element, door lintel

Provenance

Elephantine: temple of Satet, east outer wall

Description

Material(s) sandstone

Sandstone lintel carved in raised relief with the prenomen of Thutmose III in the middle and two scenes on two sides separated from the cartouche by Wadjet (on the right) and Nekhbet (on the left, recarved) sitting on nb-signs. The scenes are parallel and represent Satet sitting on the throne and giving the ʿnḫ-sing to the nomen of Thutmose III. In the scene on the right, the figure of the king is not preserved. In the upper part, the tips of the feathers of the winged sun-disk can be seen.

Jadwiga Iwaszczuk

Bibliography

Habachi Labib, Two Graffiti at Sehēl from the Reign of Queen Hatshepsut, in: Journal of Near Eastern Studies 16.2, 1957, 88, pl. XVIA$
Valbelle Dominique, Satis et Anoukis, Mainz am Rhein 1981, 14 [118]

Project was funded by the National Science Centre Poland granted on the basis of the decision no. DEC-2012/05/N/HS3/01733