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Stela dedicated by Amennakht to the Peak of the West, 18th-19th dynasty, Deir el-Medina,

 


  courtesy Turin Museum Stela dedicated by Amennakht to the Peak of the West, 18th-19th dynasty, Deir el-Medina,

The four cobras carved atop the upper part of this limestone stela of Amennakht and the goddess on the right capped with a solar disk and horns are meant to symbolize the great the Great Peak of the West. Amennakht is shown kneeling in praise inside a rectangle intended to represent a chapel. These sloping lines probably depict the two hills of the rock shrine of Ptah and Meretseger located at Deir el-Medina.

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