REAR ANNEX - WALL 28

For a complete overview of wall 28 from right to left, click on (216) (217) (218) and (219) successively.

(216) shows Pharaoh Ramesses III on the right and the god Harsiesis on the left.
To the right of Ramesses III, a hieroglyphic column is shown, the lower part of which has been lost.
The text of the hieroglyphic column reads: ‘It is the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, royal Osiris, Lord of the Two Lands, User-Ma’at-Ra Mery-Amun, son of Ra, Lord of Appearances, Ramesses, Ruler of Heliopolis, true of voice, [beloved of] Osiris, foremost of [the West]…’.
The pharaoh is wearing a blue headdress with a frontal uraeus, bordered at the bottom with a yellow band (221) (222).
On the back, it is decorated with a hawk spreading its wings.
A yellow disc can be seen above the head of the hawk and a shen ring is visible between its claws (221) (222).
Above the raised hands of the pharaoh are his two cartouches, stating ‘It is the Lord of the Two Lands, User-Ma’at-Ra Mery-Amun, son of Ra, Lord of Appearances, Ramesses, Ruler of Heliopolis, true of voice’ (216).
Above the head of Ramesses a red sun disc with two uraei is depicted (221).
(220) shows a detail of the belt and apron of the pharaoh.
To the left of Ramesses stands the god Harsiesis.
The god Harsiesis has the head of a hawk and wears an atef crown (216) (223).
With his right hand he holds the was sceptre, while holding the ankh in his left hand.
To the left of the crown of Harsiesis a hieroglyphic column is depicted with the text: ‘Words spoken by Harsiesis’.
Harsiesis means ‘Horus, the son of Isis’.

(217) shows the god Harsiesis on the right and Pharaoh Ramesses III on the left.
Ramesses wears an blue ibes wig with black meshes and a yellow seched headband (224) (225).
The pharaoh is raising his right hand in homage to the god Harsiesis (217) (224).
Above the head of Ramesses, a red sun disc with two uraei is depicted (217).
To the right of the red sun disk are the two cartouches of the pharaoh.
(226) shows a close-up of the belt and apron of Ramesses III.
A hieroglyphic column is depicted between Ramesses and Harsiesis, parallel to the was sceptre of Harsiesis, with the text: ‘I have given you millions of Sed-festivals and (an) eternity of kingship. You are King in order to rise and to set like Ra, every day’ (217).

(218) shows the god Thoth on the left and Pharaoh Ramesses III on the right.
The god Thoth has the body of a human and the head of an ibis and wears a blue tripartite wig.
(227) shows a close-up of the head of the god Thoth.
Thoth, like the god Harsiesis, wears a tunic, and is holding a was sceptre in his right hand and an ankh in his left hand (217) (218).
Above the head of Thoth a yellow lunar disk is shown, resting on a yellow crescent moon (227).
Above the was sceptre is a hieroglyphic column with the text: ‘Words spoken by Thoth, Lord of divine words’.

(219) shows the god Thoth on the right and Pharaoh Ramesses III on the left.
The pharaoh wears a nemes headdress and offers two bowls of wine to Thoth (228).
Above the head of Ramesses is a red sun disc of Behdet with two uraei (228).
To the right of the red sun disk are the two cartouches of the pharaoh with the text: ‘Lord of the Two Lands, User-Ma’at-Ra Mery-Amun, son of Ra, Lord of Appearances, Ramesses, Ruler of Heliopolis, true of voice’ (219).
Between the pharaoh and the god Thoth is a hieroglyphic column, reading: ‘I have given you a lifetime like (for) Ra and years like (for) Atum, Lord of the Two Lands in Heliopolis’.
Part of the wall painting below the belt of the pharaoh has been lost (229).
(229) shows a detail of the remaining part of the belt and the apron of the pharaoh.