With this post I begin a new Egyptology course dedicated to the second division of the sacred Book of the AmDuat, in which I will analyze the Deities and the scenes represented, with the images from the "House of Eternity" of King Sethi I (KV17), from the "House of Eternity" of King Ramses V and King Ramses VI (KV9), and from the funerary papyrus of the priest Nesmin.
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"BOOK OF THE AMDUAT, SECOND DIVISION: DEITIES AND SCENES"
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For the title of the AmDuat see here .
I already completed the description and the analysis of the first division of the AmDuat: for the titles and the links to all the lessons of this course see here .
THE SECOND DIVISION OF THE AMDUAT
As written in its introduction, in the second division of the AmDuat is represented the "setting in Wrns by the Majesty of this God (Ra)" and the "rowing (in the) j3rw-fields in the waters of Ra".
In the second division of the AmDuat "this great God (Ra) assigns plots to the Gods at this region", and "assigns fields to the Gods of the 'Duat', He takes care of Them at this region".
"The name of the Hour of the Night guiding this great God is "the Wise-one Who protects Her Lord"; the name of the gate of this region is "He Who swallows all''. "
(translation from Hornung, "Book of the AmDuat", 48-49)
diagram of the second division of the AmDuat;
image from A. Piankoff, "The tomb of Ramesses VI", vol. I, plate 75
the second division of the AmDuat from the "House of Eternity" of King Sethi I, Valley of the Kings, KV17, west 'Uaset'-Thebes.
Images from E. Lefébure, "Les hypogées royaux de Thèbes: Le tombeau de Séti Ier", IV part, plate XXIX-XXX-XXXI
the second division of the AmDuat from the "House of Eternity" of King Ramses V and King Ramses VI, Valley of the Kings, KV9, west 'Uaset'-Thebes.
Images from A. Piankoff, "The tomb of Ramesses VI", vol. II, 76-77
the second division of the AmDuat from the funerary papyrus of the priest Nesmin, "God’s Father and Prophet of Amon-Ra, King of the Gods", ca. 300-275 BCE.
Now in the Royal Collection Trust
-THE SACRED BARQUE OF RA
the sacred barque of Ra from the second division of the AmDuat represented in the "House of Eternity" of King Sethi I, KV17; on the prow of the sacred barque is represented the 'Udjat'-Eye
(Photo by Manna Nader, Gabana Studios Cairo)
the sacred barque of Ra from the second division of the AmDuat represented in the "House of Eternity" of King Sethi I, KV17.
Image from E. Lefébure, "Les hypogées royaux de Thèbes: Le tombeau de Séti Ier", IV part, plate XXIX
the sacred barque of Ra from the second division of the AmDuat represented in the "House of Eternity" of King Ramses V and King Ramses VI, KV9
(Photo by Manna Nader, Gabana Studios Cairo)
the sacred barque of Ra from the second division of the AmDuat represented in the funerary papyrus of the priest Nesmin
On the sacred barque of Ra are represented, from right to left:
-Isis and Nephthys,
represented as uraei in KV17, as huge serpents in KV9, and as uraei wearing the hieroglyphs for Their names in the Nesmin papyrus
-Upuaut, Sia (Sjȝ), and "the Lady of the barque" (Nbt wjȝ),
Upuaut and SIa are represented anthropomorphic;
"the Lady of the barque" is represented as a woman wearing the Solar disk with cow's horns; in the Nesmin papyrus She also wears the polos/modius
-Ra in His ram-headed form, called "the flesh" (jwf), and Horus Hekenw (Ḥr ḥknw),
Ra is represented ram-headed and standing in a shrine; in the Nesmin papyrus He wears the Solar disk; in KV17 and KV9 He holds a serpent-staff in His left; in the Nesmin papyrus He holds the 'Uas'-scepter in His left; in KV17 He holds the 'Ankh' in His right; in the Nesmin papyrus in front of Ra is represented Nesmin kneeling and making adorations to Ra;
Horus Hekenw is represented falcon-headed in KV17 and KV9, while in the Nesmin papyrus He is depicted anthropomorphic; in KV17 He raises His right in adoration towards Ra, while in KV9 He raises His left in adoration
-"the Bull of Maat" (Kȝ Mȝˁt), Nehes (Nhs), Hu (Ḥw), and "the Guide of the barque" (Ḫrp wjȝ),
in KV17 They are represented anthropomorphic; in KV9 and in the Nesmin papyrus "the Guide of the barque" is represented falcon-headed; in the Nesmin papyrus Hu is not represented
