THE SCENE OF 'GOING ROUND THE WALL' ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE PORTICO OF THE BIRTH
THE SCENE OF 'GOING ROUND THE WALL' ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE PORTICO OF THE BIRTH

Summary/Abstract: Epigraphic research conducted in the Portico of the Birth focused on the scene in the upper register of the north wall, which has been identified as representing the “Going Round the Wall” rite. It belongs to a cycle of investment and coronation ceremonies depicted in the upper register of the portico walls. Hatshepsut is there represented strutting, and the scene is labelled: “Unification of the Two Lands, Going Round the Wall, Flying(?) and Running at the Eastern Side”. The scene may thus be identified as a depiction of the ceremony of “Going Round the Wall”. Together with the “Unification of the Two Lands” it constituted the core of the accession rites in the Early Dynastic Period and the Old Kingdom. It seems that the “Unification of the Two Lands”, although mentioned, was not represented here.

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