Editing Nefertari (section)

===Abu Simbel, small temple===
[[Image:S F-E-CAMERON EGYPT 2005 APR 00354.JPG|thumb|left|upright|Temple of Nefertari at Abu Simbel]]

The small temple at Abu Simbel was dedicated to Nefertari and [[Hathor]] of Ibshek. The dedication text on one of the buttresses states:
: "A temple of great and Mighty monuments, for the Great Royal Wife Nefertari Meryetmut, for whose sake the (very) sun does shine, given life and beloved" (Kitchen).<ref name="KitchenRI-2"/>
While on other buttresses it says:
: "King of South and North Egypt, Usermaatre Setepenre; he has made a Temple by excavation in the mountain, of eternal work(manship) in Nubia, which the King of South and North Egypt, Usermaatre Setepenre has made for the Great Royal Wife Nefertari Meryetmut, in Nubia, like Re forever and ever" (Kitchen).<ref name="KitchenRI-2"/>

The two colossal standing statues of Nefertari in front of the small temple are equal in size to those of Ramesses&nbsp;II. Nefertari is shown holding a sistrum. She wears a long sheet dress and she is depicted with a long wig, Hathoric cow horns, the solar disk, and tall feathers mounted on a [[modius (headdress)|modius]].<ref name="TyldesleyQueens"/>

In the interior of the temple, Nefertari appears in a variety of scenes. She is shown for instance offering to a cow (Hathor) in a papyrus thicket, offering before [[Khnum]], [[Satet|Satis]], and [[Anuket]], the triad of [[Elephantine]], and offering to [[Mut]] and [[Hathor]].<ref name="KitchenRI-2"/>
[[Image:Ankh isis nefertari.jpg|thumb|upright|The goddess [[Hathor]] giving an [[ankh]], representing "life", to Nefertari]]