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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.

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Uploaded on July 25, 2022
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