Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (17.2005(2007))

DEIR EL-BAHARI

EGYPT

CHAPEL OF HATSHEPSUT

Our study in the chapel focused on both the
documentation of its decoration and re-
construction of its architectural layout. New
fragments were attributed to particular
places in the chapel. The vaulted ceiling of
the Chapel was inscribed with the so-called
"Stundenritual" and the Chapel walls
contain chapters from the Book of the
Dead.6 Progress has been made on the

reconstruction of the so-called "Night
hours" decorating the northern part of the
ceiling [Fig. 4].
The focus this season was on the West
Wall of the Chapel of Hatshepsut in view of
its decoration and the state of the
foundations. A gap in the decoration of the
western tympanum of the West Wall has
now been filled with two new fragments


Fig. 4. Royal Mortuary Cult Complex. Chapel of Hatshepsut. Blocks hearing the 11Night hours"
text (Photo M. Jawornicki)

6 Cf. Szafranski, op. cit., 226, note 4.

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