Ramesseum - Second Court Portico

Three flights of steps, the most northerly of which is well preserved, lead up to the Portico on a raised terrace. Of the rear wall only the southern part survives, with three rows of reliefs: bottom row, eleven sons of the King; middle row, the King conducted into the temple by Atum and the falcon headed Month, who holds the hieroglyph for "life" to his nostrils; to the right the King kneeling before the three chief Theban gods, behind him Thoth inscribing his name on a palm branch; top row, the King making an offering to Ptah (left) and burning incense before an ithyphallic Min and a goddess.