Vaulted Burial Chamber, Amduat, Second Hour, Seti I (Sethos), KV17, Valley of the Kings (7)
Lower Register
Name of the gods : "Ba-souls of the Duat" ;
Name of the goddess : "The wise who protects her master" ;
Structural features : Re's flotilla arrives in the Duat, no Solar Disk ;
Five boats are depicted. The activity of the Sungod expands, touching all netherworldly beings. The lower register pictures the beings ensuring the agricultural year : inundation, sowing and harvest. Other beings carry ears of corn and they assign plots to land to the followers of Osiris, the peasants of Wernes.
Main visual semantic : fertile waters carrying the Offering Barks of Re ;
Theme : the power of the Sun activates the Duat.
Vaulted Burial Chamber, Amduat, Second Hour, Seti I (Sethos), KV17, Valley of the Kings (7)
Lower Register
Name of the gods : "Ba-souls of the Duat" ;
Name of the goddess : "The wise who protects her master" ;
Structural features : Re's flotilla arrives in the Duat, no Solar Disk ;
Five boats are depicted. The activity of the Sungod expands, touching all netherworldly beings. The lower register pictures the beings ensuring the agricultural year : inundation, sowing and harvest. Other beings carry ears of corn and they assign plots to land to the followers of Osiris, the peasants of Wernes.
Main visual semantic : fertile waters carrying the Offering Barks of Re ;
Theme : the power of the Sun activates the Duat.