TAA i.3.25.11

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          Tho/<e>se marks clearly show the correct orientation of the 

shrine, but like the preceding shrines it was erected in the

exact opposite direction, namely, the front facing east in-

stead of towards the west.

          The over-all decoration, incorporating various designations 

of the King, religious representations and texts, is incised

upon the gesso-gold overlay. The cartouches in the texts 

show, however, distinct traces of having been altered: their

gilding is in many cases of a more brilliant yellow colour and 

less tarnished than the rest of the gold overlay. The dec-

oration as a whole has also a more distinct El Amarna style 

than that of the preceding shrines. Thus, it was at first 

thought that the cartouches were originally the Aten-form of 

the King's name, but since both the prenomen and nomen have 

been changed it is not ixxx[?]/<mpro>bable that the shrine was origin-

ally intended for another monarch of this line of hereditary

rulers – possibly Semenkh-ka-re. The decoration of the upper

surface of the roof varies from that of the preceding shrines. 

Here, instead being completely gilded and incised with formu-

lae, it is coated all over with a black resinous material, 

which is divided into a number of small squares by longitudinal 

and transverses gilded bands of ins/<c>ised inscriptions.