DOI article:
Karkowski, Janusz: The Hatshepsut temple at Deir el-Bahari, 1993: the epigraphic mission
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43746#0085
The study of pillar inscriptions permitted their "grammar"
to be established and significant progress was achieved in attribut-
ing blocks to particular pillars and in correcting various errors.
Also the architraves of the colonnade were recorded, both
large blocks and fragments. In the future an important part of these
architraves can be positioned back in their original places. The
architraves of the inner colonnade with the royal tutelary on one
side and a short dedicatory formula on the other are preserved in
about 75%. It was established that texts on the Hathoric pillars
facing the axial passage were made in sunk relief, despite the fact
that they were in the shadow of a roof.^
The study of the architecture centered on the access to the
Hathor shrine. The southern retaining wall of the first terrace was
measured anew and all the traces of lines in red paint were
recorded. The results differed from previous publications by E.
Naville and Z. Wysocki. Only the oldest and the latest ramps have
been confirmed archaeologically, although it is not possible to
establish if the older of the two was ever completed. It should be
mentioned that no preserved line on the southern retaining wall
corresponds to the final ramp of which parts of the balustrade
remain.$ The other lines of intended ramps can be linked with
the three stages of the platform in front of the shrine, established
3
Most of the documentation and the study of the pillars were done by R.
Pirelli.
4 For the use of sunk and low reliefs during the Tuthmoside Period cf.
Karkowski, Faras V (Warsaw 1981), 59 with n. 247.
5 Fact overlooked by previous authors.
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to be established and significant progress was achieved in attribut-
ing blocks to particular pillars and in correcting various errors.
Also the architraves of the colonnade were recorded, both
large blocks and fragments. In the future an important part of these
architraves can be positioned back in their original places. The
architraves of the inner colonnade with the royal tutelary on one
side and a short dedicatory formula on the other are preserved in
about 75%. It was established that texts on the Hathoric pillars
facing the axial passage were made in sunk relief, despite the fact
that they were in the shadow of a roof.^
The study of the architecture centered on the access to the
Hathor shrine. The southern retaining wall of the first terrace was
measured anew and all the traces of lines in red paint were
recorded. The results differed from previous publications by E.
Naville and Z. Wysocki. Only the oldest and the latest ramps have
been confirmed archaeologically, although it is not possible to
establish if the older of the two was ever completed. It should be
mentioned that no preserved line on the southern retaining wall
corresponds to the final ramp of which parts of the balustrade
remain.$ The other lines of intended ramps can be linked with
the three stages of the platform in front of the shrine, established
3
Most of the documentation and the study of the pillars were done by R.
Pirelli.
4 For the use of sunk and low reliefs during the Tuthmoside Period cf.
Karkowski, Faras V (Warsaw 1981), 59 with n. 247.
5 Fact overlooked by previous authors.
83