Scene F is mostly images with a small amount of text. The deities figured are particularly enigmatic. The tableau consists of Sety I arranging breads and beer on a table before a large shrine filled with images of the gods. This scene was opposite to the corresponding scene D. The position of the final lion-headed deities probably indicates that Nefertum was enthroned at the back of the chapel together with his mother Sekhmet.

(This might be because the third chapel which ended up being converted into a corridor had originally been designated to Sekhmet and she was later moved into the same chapel with Nefertum, ...OR, as I think is more probable, she was intended to reside in this chapel with him from the very beginning. The doorway to the Sokar Complex names the third cult recipiant as Aah, the moon god. It is my opinion that this deity's cultic venue was moved to a chapel on the roof where the actual moon might have been observed after his Sokar-Complex chapel was modified into the Western Corridor. All of this will be written up in YES 5 in the coming year.)

The occupants of the shrine in scene F are: Tatjenen, enthroned, wearing horns, disk, and plumes and holding a was-scepter, crook and flagellum; Amun Within His Disk, depicted as a kneeling mummiform god with a solar disk in the place of his head, and a crux ansata hanging from his neck; Osiris-Onophris, depicted with a djed-pillar in the place of his head and a crux ansata hanging from his neck; Sety I as a crouching sphinx, wearing the nemes-headdress and offering the Hen (a box containing the deed to the temple) toward the next figure; and Sekhmet, as an enthroned lioness-headed woman reaching out to take the Hen from the King. These last two figures are interestingly depicted on an elongated horizon-sign which in turn rests upon a sledge. Probably there is some play with the idea that through the gift of the temple to Sekhmet, Sety has achieved the status of "horizon-dweller".

F. South Wall, Upper Register, Right End

First god:
1) t3-Tnn Hr.y-jb Hw.t mn-m3`.t-r`
Tatjenen residing in the Mansion of Menmaatre,

2) dj=f 3w.t-jb nb(.t)
as he gives all happiness.

Second god:
3) jmn jm.y jtn=f Hr.y-jb Hw.t mn-m3`.t-r`
Amun Within His Disk residing in the Mansion of Menmaatre,

4) dj=f `nx Dd w3s nb xr=f
as he gives all life, stability, and dominion to him.

Third god:
5) 3sjrj-wnn-nfr Hr.y-jb Hw.t mn-m3`.t-r`
Osiris-Onophris residing in the Mansion of Menmaatre,

6) dj=f snb nb xr=f
as he gives all health to him.

Sphinx:
7) Hnk Hn n mw.t=f sxm.t
Offering the Hen to his mother Sekhmet

8) jn n.y-sw.t mn-m3`.t-r`
by King Menmaatre,

9) z3-r` nb x`j.w stX.y mrj.y-n.y-ptH
Son of Re, Lord of Diadems, Sety Beloved of Ptah,

10) jrj=f dj.w `nx Dd w3s mj-r`
that he might achieve the state of "given life, stability, and
dominion" like Re.

Goddess:
11) sxm.t `3j.t mrj.y.t ptH
Great Sekhmet, beloved of Ptah

12) Hr.y-jb Hw.t mn-m3`.t-r`
residing in the Mansion of Menmaatre,

13) dj=s Htp.w
as she gives offerings.

King:
14) Dd-mdw.w jn nb t3.wy mn-m3`.t-r`
A recitation by Lord of the Two Lands, Menmaatre,

15) z3-r` nb x`j.w stX.y mrj.y n.y ptH
Son of Re, Lord of Diadems, Sety, Beloved of Ptah;

16) Htp [...] (d)bH.t=f
"May [...] be content (with) what he has requested!

17) Htp zkr Hr b`H=f
May Sokar be content with his bounty,

18) z3w p.t `=k r t3
guardian of heaven, with your hand on earth

19) T3z-pXr Htp-dj-n.y-sw.t Hn=j
and vice versa. An invocation offering: I approach in life and I am
pure."

Be well and have fun. Yours, Geoff Graham sokar@minerva.cis.yale.edu