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An active picture of an offering scene .
A few photographs... (select the pictures to get an larger version)
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- Entrance of the queen's temple, Abu Simbel;
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- Slab with the name of Rameses II, Karnak;
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- a hieroglyph in the white chapel, Karnak;
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- the god Ptah, queen's temple, Abu Simbel;
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- Sekhmet, Lady of epidemics, Ptah temple, Karnak
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- Sethy the first cartouche, Karnak
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- Stela from the vice-king of Koush, Iouny, at Abou Simbel
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- The royal butler Rameses-Ashahebsed's stela at Abou Simbel
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- Nomarch tombs in Assuan
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- Carvings in the entrance of Heqa-ib's tomb in Assuan: the landlord welcomes the visitor.
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- A relief from the Ramesseum (Thebes): a door in the Temple. Ramesses the IIth asks any priest who would enter to be pure
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- Your standard sunset in Luxor.
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- Saqqarah, Mererouka's tomb: the
defunct infront of his altar, coming through the false door to eat his
funerary meal.
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- Luxor Temple. The procession of
fattened bulls. The animals, doomed to be sacrificated, symbolize the
traditional foes of Egypt. They bear
masks in the likeness of those on their heads. The horns of the
first bull have been carved to look like arms ; bulls with similar
twisted horns can be seen in modern Sudan.
All pictures by J. F. Rosmorduc.