Silsila - Reliefs

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Reliefs Description

On the left hand end wall is a fine relief of a goddess offering the breast to King Horemheb. Behind her is the god Khnum, behind the King Amun-Re.

On the rear wall is Horemheb's triumphal procession after his Nubian campaign. The Pharaoh, seated on his throne, is borne by 12 soldiers adorned with feathers. He is preceded and followed by a soldier with a long handled fan. In front is a priest, offering incense, with a train of captured Nubians and three rows of soldiers, including a trumpeter. To the left are the King and Amun, standing on prostrate Negroes (Kushites). Under the main scene is a niche, to the left of which are Negro prisoners, to the right Egyptian soldiers marching off fettered captives. The "barbarians" are

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depicted in a free style, without the usual stiffness of Egyptian drawing. Poetic inscriptions above both reliefs extol the King as victor over the people of Kush: "Hail to thee, king of Egypt: thy name is great in the land of the Nubians......"

To the right is a niche with the full-face figure, in high relief, of Khai, an official under Ramesses II. Above is an inscription with a representation of King Siptah bringing flowersto Amun, while an official named Bai stands behind him with a flabellum (fan); below, Horemheb shooting arrows at an enemy. Then follows a stela dated in the second year of King Merneptah depicting the King presenting an image of the goddess Maat to Amun-Re and Mut; behind him are Queen Astnefert with the sistrum and his Vizier Penehsi with a flabellum. In the next niche is a high-relief figure of a man holding his left hand in front of his breast. Then a stela commemorating Ramesses II's fourth Jubilee, set up by his son Khamweset. To the right of the doorway into the rear chamber is a similar inscription by Khamweset. Small relief figure of a man named Moi praying. Niche with a large figure of Khamweset in high relief. Badly damaged figure of Khamweset receiving votive offerings. Stele commemorating Ramesses II's Jubilee, set up by his Fan-bearer Moi, who is depicted kneeling on the left; above, Ramesses II presenting an image of Justice to Amun, Harakhty, Maat, Ptah and Sobek, the local god of Silsila. Relief of a Vizier; below, a representation of a column with a palm capital. Stela dedicated in the 45th year of Ramesses II's reign by a high official, who is depicted kneeling below, with a flabellum; above, the King offering an image of Justice to Amun, Mut, Khons, Harakhty and Sobek (head destroyed). At the end of the wall, three men praying.

In the right hand end wall is a niche with six figures in high relief. There are also many memorial inscriptions at the north end of the entrance wall and on the pillars between the doorways. On the left hand wall of the doorway into the inner chamber Horemheb is depicted making offerings to the sun god Harakhty and the goddess Eusos of Heliopolis; on the right hand wall he is in the presence of Amun and Mut. On the side walls of the inner chamber are representations of various deities. In the rear wall is a niche containing seven badly damaged seated figures of gods (in the middle Amun).

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