Trip to Egypt, April 2005

The Westbank 6 - Deir el Bahri

Coloured Reliefs by the Yinepu chapel, middle platform

What strikes you first here is the freshness of the colors. Next the fact that so many of the paintings seem to be partly destroyed. Every depiction of Hatshepsut has been erased in the attempt to render her forgotten. The chapel itself was barred for visitors, these photos are from the gallery outside of it.



Originally Hatshepsut was standing between Ra-Horakhty and Nekhbet (partly visible),
now there´s only an empty space.



On the opposite wall, Djehutymose III offers to Sokar.



Closeup on the cartouches.
I´ve learnt that this one is a variant of MenKheperRa Djehutymose (Thutmose III)


A frieze with the 'Eye of Re' in cobra form, above the winged sun disc.



The frieze runs just below the starstudded ceiling, here above a set of mildly colored hieroglyphs.



A nicely arranged offering table.
The empty space to the right was a depiction of Hatshepsut making offerings to Yinepu, later erased.



Closeup of the offerings; libations, flowers and incence.



In a corner, the 'imiut fetish', one of the symbols of Yinepu (Anubis).



A peek through the bar reveals this much of the chapel.



Can you tell the glyphs? The Bee, the Sedge...


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