Edwards, Amelia B.: Pharaohs, fellahs and explorers (New York, NY, 1892)

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PHARAOHS, FELLAHS, AND EXPLORERS.

The chair, with its footstool, stands on a portable platform,

and is evidently used as a chaise-
d-porteurs, and not as a mere em-
blem of royalty. The inscription
beneath the chair describes the
Queen as " this good God," and
enumerates her titles as " Lord of
the Two Lands," etc.

Hatasu has presumably been
carried to the Temple of Amen,
where she is seen in the next
tableau standing, staff in hand, in
the full costume of a Pharaoh,
face to face with Amen enthroned.
The inscription which fills the
space between these two figures
is cast into the form of a dialogue
between the god and the Queen.
Hatasu, reverting to the origin
of the expedition, proclaims her
intention of exploring the ways
of Punt, that there may be

Ana in abundance for the service of the temple. The god,

THE QCEKN RECEIVING HER TROOrS.

1sE1m3P

-^prrr^f

CEREMONY SUPPOSED TO TAKE PLACE IX THE TEMPLE OE AMEN AT KAKXAK.

(From Marietta's Drir-eI-Bahar>,p)&te 11.)

in reply, congratulates her on the success of her expedition,
and states that he himself, together with Ilathor, the Lady