Quay 1 Forecourt Temple1 Karnak Temple 1 ‘a practical guide to the Karnak temple complex’ KARNAK 1 1 Forecourt Temple 2 1e Court / 1e Pylon 3 Hypostyle Hall / 2e Pylon 4 Courts & Pylons III IV V VI 5 Central Area 6 Akh Menou 7 Enclosure Thoutmosis III 8 East Area KARNAK 2 9 Procession Road 10 Sacred Lake 11 West Area / Khonsu / Opet 12 North Area / Ptah 13 Open Air Museum 14 Mut Temple 15 Montu Temple 16 Aton Temple Every text and image in this publication has been compiled from sources publicly available through internet, libraries and other publications. This publication will not be used for any commercial purpose, the only reason is insight and transfer of knowledge. In particular I thank W.J. de Jongh W.C. Sollman l’Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale (Ifao) B. Porter and R.L.B. Moss SITH: Projet Karnak Jean Claude Golvin R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology Los Angeles Luc Gabolde M. Georges Legrain Centre Franco Égyptien d’Étude des Temples de Karnak Ahmed Al Tahere
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Middle Kingdom Court 50
Great Collonade Heret ib 55
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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5 Central Area 42
6 – Akh Menou 52
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Court I 5
Bark Chapel Seti II 14
Kiosk Taharqa 15
Botanical Garden 60 Solar Room 61
Pylon IV 35
Bark Chapel Philippus Arrhidaeus 42 Palace of Ma'at 45
Chapelle du culte impérial 4
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Bubastide Gate 6
Wadjet Hall 36
Court South Pylon VI 40 Vestibule Tutmosis III 41 Court North Pylon VI 41
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Tempel Ramses II 66 Osiris Catacombs 66 Colonnade orientale de Taharqa 67 Eastgate 68
Quay 3
Bark Chapel Achôris 3
2 1e Court / 1e Pylon 5
Bark Chapel Ramses III 7
4 Pylons & courts III IV V VI 32
Pylon V 38
Sokarian Room 57
Obelisque Unique 66
7 Enclosure 62
3 – 2e Pylon / Hypostyle Hall 16
Obelisks Seti II 3
Court Between Pylon V VI 38
Hypostyle Hall 17
Pylon VI 39
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8 East Area 65
Pylon III 32
Pylon I 5
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The chapel was used to house the portable bark of Amun Ra on its processional journey outside the temple. The ingenious design of the chapel allowed the bark to be moved directly from the river (prow to the north) into the shrine via the northern door, and removed again) through the western door (prow still to the north) without changing the bark's orientation as it entered into the temple precinct. A small granite platform in the rear of the chapel would have allowed the priests to rest the bark while they themselves changed position.
a Block, double scene, Pinezem kneeling with wine on front, and eroded texts on sides, sandstone. b Stele (?) double scene, Seti II with incense and offering two vases (?) to Amun, facing north and south, with the text below. Sandstone.
Construction materials: sandstone, black granite, wood Measurements: The chapel measured 10.2m across and 18m deep, with a reconstructed height of 5.62m. The western side had a wide opening of 4.88m, while the northern door was much smaller: 2.2m. The western architrave was made from an 8.25m wooden beam.
Length 14.7 m, width 13.5 m On the western quay there are several Nile height indications (Sjeshonk XXII D, Psammetichus XXVI D)
Horus Nebty Golden King N/S Egypt Son of Re North Pedestal only Datation: XIXe dynastie / Séti II Matière : Quartzite..
The chapel of king Hakoris was a small rectangular chapel located outside the Amun temple's first pylon. Two doorways opened to the small building's west and to the north. Open papyrus form columns with low screen walls composed the western half of the chapel, while the eastern side was fully enclosed to the ceiling. A wooden architrave supported stone cavetto blocks.
B Obelisk of Seti II, H 3.8 mtr, complete title in 4 rows from top to bottom Datation: XIXe dynastie / Séthi II Matière : Quartzite / H3,57 m
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Obelisks Seti II
Bark Chapel Achôris
Dashed line suspected to be away from the barque a Gate East / Bark entrance b North Gate; 2 X King + sacrifices / Barque exit c Ante Naos d Naos e / e 'Boat presentation f List g Exterior roof drain water
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Although he mentions two obelisks 3m80 high broken in the middle, Legrain found only one in 1895, composed of two fragments, which he replaced on its base located in the south eastern corner. from the western gallery. Each side of the obelisk has four identical columns of text giving the title of Seti II. A frieze of vertical cartouches, where his name of coronation alternates with his name of son of Ra, is engraved all around the base.
R II, mostly usurped by Pinedjem (Length 52 m, width between the sphinxes 13.5 m, total width 20.5 m ) This avenue leads to the first tower of the Great Temple of Amon Re. On both sides, we can see the sphinxes of the god Amon Re. These sphinxes are ram headed, symbolising the god Amon Re. On the sphinxes’ paws stands a small effigy of Ramesses II, in the form of Osiris.
A Lion shaped sphinxes with the head of a ram, between the forelimbs Ramses II in the form of Osiris. Plinths of the sphinxes 1.35 / 1.7 m. Text around the pedestal added by Pinedjem, son of Piankhi XXI D.
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A.1.B Sphinxes
South
A.1.H Roman Baths
A.1.G Ptolemaic Baths
STÈLE DE SÉTHI II DU DROMOS OUEST
Chapelle du culte impérial 1 Forecourt Temple4
A.1.D
Chapelle du culte impérial
A.1.E 2 X descending access / Slope Taharqa
A.1.F Roman Cistern
Between the 20th southern sphinx of the dromos and the 1st pylon is a small Roman temple (8.60 x 14.00 m) dedicated to imperial worship. It was partially cleared in 1939 by H. Chevrier. The chapel must have been prostyle tetrastyle, probably with Corinthian columns. It is perpendicular to the dromos and accessible by a staircase. The foundations and the lower part of the walls are made of fired bricks. The upper parts are in mud bricks. The sandstone is reserved for the access ramp, the jambs of the door of the naos and the paving. Inside the naos, fourteen bases of Roman imperial statues are set against the walls. Most of them keep the footprints in negative on their upper surface. Greek inscriptions engraved and painted in red are visible on their front faces. Two of these dedications are addressed to Augustus, one to Tiberius, three to Claudius and one to Titus.
Nectanebo built Pylon I with a new huge enclosure wall surrounding the Amun temple precinct, to serve as a new monumental entrance to the temple. It continues to The pylon was probably constructed to replace the western wall and gateway of the court of Shoshenq I, which functioned as the western entrance to the temple in the Third Intermediate Period. project was never completed. The construction of this pylon and its huge enclosure wall may have been undertaken to protect the temple from foreign invaders.
A.3.4 Remains of obelisk Thutmose III
Two rows of fifty ram headed sphinxes would have fronted the second pylon before the construction of the court. No doubt the king was forced to rearrange these sphinxes; a group of them may have been placed outside the new court. The southeast exterior wall of the court was decorated with a series of famous scenes portraying the king triumphing over his enemies in Syro Palestine.
Construction materials: sandstone Measurements: The court is 82m wide and 101m deep. The western gate had an opening of 17.70m and a total height of 27.50m. Shoshenq I constructed a huge court before the second pylon, the previous main entrance to the temple on its east/west axis. On the west side of the court, he probably built a huge new gateway (incorporated into the later pylon towers of Nectanebo). A stela from year 21 of Shoshenq’s reign explained that the king intended to "illumine Thebes by erecting its double door of millions of cubits, to make a festival court for the house of his father Amun Ra, king of the gods."
Pylon I 2 1e Court / 1e Pylon5 2 –
1e Court / 1e Pylon
A.3.2 Bubastid colonnade. In the western corner against the pylon, the first 2 columns and above are not finished, possibly because of the construction of the first pylon
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Construction materials: sandstone / 2 x 4 notches for cedar flagpoles North side, 32 stone layers high, 21.7 m; south side 45 stone layers high, 31.65 mtr. thick 14.5 m. Door, depth 7.4 m, H 19.36 m. (1: 2.618 !!) Up to H 26 mtr. Width in height 16.90 mtr. On the inside of the entrance door, Napoleon's scholars have engraved the degrees of longitude and latitude of several monuments A.2.a Earthen wall for construction works
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“The Mansion of Hedjkheperre Setepenre (Sheshonk) in Thebes’.” The temple's first court, built by Shoshenq I, was located between the first and second pylon. It is highly likely that the king had also planned a great pylon entrance, but this too was never achieved, and the court was perhaps hurriedly closed at the front by a mud brick wall with a central gate. The court enclosed the Seti II shrine and the northern section of the R III temple. The court was lined on its northern and southern sides with sandstone papyrus bud columns. A small area between the R III temple and the second pylon is known as the "Bubastite portal." Inside the court, two columns mark this gate. The majority of the court still exists at Karnak today, only its west wall was destroyed during later construction in the area.
A.3.1 South / north Sphinxes depot
A.3.3 2 X altar (+ sphinx)
Court I
Pylon I 2
1 Sesonchis I, with son Yewepet, receiving Heb sed from Amun 2 with [Yewepet], embraced by Chonsu 3 remains of young king, with [Yewepet] with sistra, suckled by Mut.
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WestGate Triumphal reliefs South Face
c (22) Text (continuation of (h)) from year 22, 25, 28, 29, of Sesonchis III, with a list of gifts to Amun d (20 21) Double scene, Prins Userken offering bread to Amon, with text (continuation at (f)) of year 12 and IS e Wall formed from recycled blocks of Nitocris, Shepenwept 11 and a king.
1 Sesonchis I, with son Yewepet, receives Heb sed from Amtm 2 received the life of Monthu 3 suckled by Hathor with zeb sed text on the base.
h (12) Architrave, north face, dedication text from Sesonchis I. i (10) Three registers
b (16 19) Double scene, Takelothis II, with son Userken, High Priest (son of Queen Keramama), with statue of Maat, embraced by Amon, with the text below, annals van Userken, year 11 of Takelothis 11.
Bubastide Gate
f (13 15) Three registers 1 Osorkon I receives Zeb sed (symbol dominion) from Amun keeping scimitar 2 two scenes: 1 King receives the life of Khnum 2 sucked by Hathor 3 (hidden by wall at (i)), crowned by Amon and Mut g (11) Three registers.
Shoshon I (22 dynasty) receives from King Rehoboam the Templar treasure of conquered Jerusalem, and gives orders to rebuild Karnak. He dies 1 year after giving the order.
a (3 6) WestGate Triumphal reliefs South Face
Double scene, Interior south wall north face east of doorway
Bubastide Gate 2 1e Court / 1e Pylon6
Receiving Zeb sed, eastpilaster west face top register
Pillier Ouest 1Scène nord : Don de la vie et des jubilées
Bark Chapel Ramses III 2 1e Court / 1e Pylon7
King Ramses Meiamoun wearing the Psechent (white crown on the red) has a number of prisoners from the north andfrom the middle) by the hair, while he beats peoples from the North and the Middle with the white club. Opposite stands Amon holding in one hand the rope of the prisoner and in the other offering the King a harp / 1 Ramses III followed by goddess, decorate flowers for Amon (Re) and Maout / 2 Ramses III fire incense for Maout (Ourithe Kaou) 2 X and Montoe bring R III to Amon (Re) e / f Graffito, figure / Graffito, [man] before Amon.
Insite Court doorway
1/2 Destroyed, replace blocks at (2/3/4).
5/6 Lintel, similar double scenes depicting Macet after Amon and Chonsu (Mut on right half).
First Court
Osirid pillars court Ceiling of terrace and Hypostyle hall, seen from below Roof above the shrines
4 King for Amun on the left, royal titles and decoration on the right, with vulture decoration on the inside.
Door jambs, three registers, King offering to Amu of Macet, with the name of the door at the base.
Pylon A.7.1
Right Pylon identical representation, however the Amon Re and Chonsoe receive offerings from R III and Mirit chapel of papyrus names from foreigners d Scene left
Statues
Bark Chapel Ramses III
Construction materials: sandstone, red granite 27.5m across, 60.5m deep and 14m high. Hypostyle hall 21.25m across and 9m deep.
A.7.2
On both sides of the 1st court 8 times Osiride statues Western with Red crown; Anhoui, Set, Harouris, Harsheij, Chonsoe, X, Maout, MenthouEastern with white crown; Thot, Sebek, Montoe, Ptah, Horkhouti, Thot, Amonit, Maout (Legrain 1895)
Doorway
R III D19 constructed a new bark shrine south of the second pylon, enclosed by the later Shoshenq I court. The bark shrine was fronted by a small pylon inscribed with scenes of the king smiting his enemies. The pylon had a granite gateway and lacked flagstaffs. Sixteen engaged statues of R III adorned the pillars of the first court of the temple. The court led to a small vestibule and a hypostyle hall. The "holy of holies" in the temple was replaced with three bark shrines, used to house the barks of the gods Amun, Mut and Khonsu.
Statues a / b Ramses III, on pedestal, red sandstone, height 6.0 m, on the sides prisoners with name rings. Cartouche of Ramses IV on support of the east statue, and prince (unnamed) in relief on the support of the western prisoners with name rings on sides of bases. Found in the ground near the colossi the stele of Kamose (Luxor Museum) with historical texts about the Hyksos expulsion c Scene right
South Face Of Doorway Through Pylon. Ramses Iii Making Offerings To Re A, D, F, I In The Form Of Min B, C, E, G, If, K In His Normal Form
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Gray speckled granite
B / C
Four scenes
Base texts of R Ill and IV.
King receiving Heh sed from Amun, with four kneeling nome divinities at base.
1 Small barks of Theban Triad and of the King, carried by priests
D Festival of Amon
e / f Intercolumnar walls four scenes, lower part 1destroyed.Kingwith
Upper Egyptian Mert for Amon and Mut 2 King for Mut led by Atum and a god of Theban Triad 4 King with Lower Egyptian Mert for Amon and Chonsu
2/3 King, with standardbearers, presenting offerings to Amon with bowing courtiers.
Bark Chapel Ramses III 2 1e Court / 1e Pylon8
3 King censing with hymn to Amon of year 22, with tablet in front of him
(1) Assignment text, (2) text, (3), (4) King receives the life of Amun on each side.
Four scenes
g Portal
4 King censing and libating offerings to barks of Theban Triad on stands.
A Festival of Min
5 Three registers, princes with fans, vases on stands with attendant.
Base, texts of R Ill and IV.
4 King, with Princes Ra<meses and Amenl;lirkhopshef, censing to statue of Min Amon, carried by priests on stand with decorated cloth, and followed by priests and attendants.
2 Large bark of Amon carried by priests and preceded by the King
1 King, followed by Thoth writing King's name on Heb sed wand, consecrating offerings to Theban Triad.
(46) Upper register Left to Right A Presenting Libation and Incense To Montu / B Presenting a Pectoral To Amon Re Kamutef / C Presenting Maat to Amon Re / D Presenting Lettuce to Amon Re / E Embraced by a Goddess / F Receiving scepters from the Theban Triad and Amonet
b Tempel ritual Two registers (45) Ramses Iii Before Various Deities
d Two scenes 1 King receiving emblems from Theban Triad 2 receives the life of Mut Sekhmet Bubastis
Lower register Left to Right E Censing the Shrine of Amon Re F Drawing the Bolt of the door of Amon Re's Shrine G Opening the door of Amon Re's Shrine
Hypostyle Hall
Portico
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Upper register Left to Right A Presenting an Offering To Amon Re B Presenting incense to Amon Re C Officiating before Amon Re Kamutef and Amonet D Performing a "Royal Offering" Ceremony before the Theban Triad
8 columns: Two scenes on each, king, with a divinity, offer to two deities (Amon, Mut, Chonsu, Ament or Ma a), including I'ob on the eastern column on the southern row, and scene on the next column in the south row, King, with Sefkhet abu writing on Heb sed stick, offering flowers to Chonsu and Ma <et. Texts on architraves, interior walls and abaci. COI 52 4, 55 [A G, L, M], 76 [E], cf. 78 [G].
c EAST RIII Before Various Deities
e Two scenes: 1 queen <AI; lmosi Nefertere with sistrum and menat for Amrm and snake headed Termuthis, King receives mister van Mut, with column with text on the back wall in the middle.
Bark Chapel Ramses III 2 1e Court / 1e Pylon9
Lower register Left to Right G Officiating Before Amon Re and Mut / H Conducted Into The Presence of Amon Re By Onuris And Tefnut / L Crowned by Amon Re \ K Receiving a Sword From Amon Re
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c Three rows of seated deities, d Two registers, 1 king with Hathor to Amun, 2 king led by two gods to Mut.
J Two registers, King for Deities
e WALL. King with long text deeds for Amon and Mut f / g 2 images black granite Goddess with lioness head (Sekhmet) walking with papyrus scroll Easternly called 'lover of Maout Sekhmet, lady of Asherou' (mother symbol) Western 'lover of Sekhmet Menhit (goddess of war) h WALL King with long text deeds for Chonsu i Thoth writes King's name on l; zeb sed wall.
a Portico: 1/2 Lintel, double scene, king with vases after Amon and Mut, and with ? lap and oar to Amon and Chonsu. Jambs, king comes in. 3/4 Texts. 5/6 Lintel, double scene, King with Chonsu (Mut in right half) offering wine to Amon. Jambs, lyrics.
f Two scenes; 1 king, with Nekhbet, Lighting lamps for Amun and Hatthor, 2 King receives the life of Chonsu g two scenes, 1 king who worshiped Chonsu and goddess 2 king for [Chonsu]. Text column on return wall in the middle.
4 columns in papyrus bud Scene on each, King with a goddess Hathor, Ament, Nekhbet, Maat offering (once with Pta} .l to replace Chonsu), with lyrics about abaci and soffits. a / b Intercolumnar walls, three scenes: 1 King, with Buto, offering wine to Amun and Chonsu king to Amun and Mut, 3 king, with Nekhbet, offering bread to Amun and Mut.
3 Chonsu
a Lintels and doorposts, royal titles. / b Remains of king led by Nekhbet to Chonsu / c King, with Hathor, libatising to Amun and Mut.
Light window in the ceiling in the middle: a Destroyed scenes. of text, id. ib. pls. 77 [1]. b Two scenes; 1 king, with writing of Sefkhet cabu on l: Heb sed wall and a god (on the entrance wall), offers wine to Monthu King, with Hathor, offers sphinx cream jar to Theban Triad.
2 Amon
Register 2 three scenes: 1 king, with Nekhbet, offers a statue from Ma <et to Ptal; l and goddess / 2 King [censing] and libating to Amon and goddess Amun and Mut.
h Ramses III Presenting,
North Wall Partially destroyed Register 1 Four scenes: 1 King sacrificial image of Ma <et to Amen / 2 with vases to Amun / 3 with four colored boxes of cloth to Amun / 4 four calves floating to Amon and goddess
Chapels
5 West side room
Light window in the ceiling in the middle: a outside As in (Mut) with Chonsu instead of Mut. / b [King, with ? libates to bark from Chonsu. / c As with (Mut), with Chonsu instead of Mut. / d Double scene, king receives life from Chonsu.
Bark Chapel Ramses III 1e Court / 1e Pylon
4 Sideroom
7 Staircase Sanctuary of Mut to roof
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(412 Litany van godin Wast van Thebe's gouw??) / A King’s names b/c King recieves life from Mut.
a Outside Lintel, double scene, king offering wine to Mut, stairs, king comes in. within Royal titles. b Double scene, king offering wine to Mut (above doorway), and scene further on, king offering bouquets to bark at Mut's stand c King, with Mut, before Mut's bark is up. d Double scene, king offering ointment to Mut.
6 East side room In the ceiling in the middle a 'light window' a Two scenes,: 1 King, with Menl} .yt holding sistra (at the entrance of the wall), led by Atum and Monthu / 2 king, with Mut, disapproving and liberating to Theban Triad. / b King and [a goddess] with offering list and offerings before Amon Ament and Chonsu. / c Double scene, king embraces Amon.
North Wall Partially destroyed (42)
A White Bread To Horus Khentikheti / B Incense To Montu C A Nemett Jar to Set / D A "Great Oblation" To Amon Re Kamutef / E Water And Incense To Osiris / F Ointment To Amon Re Atum, And / G Water And Incense To Amon Re
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i Two registers: Upper register Left to Right A White Bread To Horus Khentikheti, B Incense ToMontu, C A Nmtt Jar To Set, D A "Great Oblation" To Amon Re Kamutef Lower register Left to Right E Water And Incense To Osiris F Ointment To Amon Re Atum G Water And Incense To Amon Re
1 Mut
In the ceiling against the walls on the side 'light windows' Upper register: Right The Nome Of Thebes Praising AmonRe / Middel RIII Officiating Before The Shrine Of Amon Lower register: Left The Gods (15) Conferring Benefits Upon RIII / Middle RIII Officiating Before The Shrine Amon Re
Bark Chapel Ramses III 2 1e Court / 1e Pylon11 Exterior A.7.6
4 X drainage on roof
1 RIII Presenting a "Great Oblation" before The Theban Triad 2 Middle Decrees of the King concerning the presentation of cult objects to Amon in year x6, including offer list.
4 Ramses III officiating before various gods Upper register, right to left A Presenting A Sbt To Mut (clock?) / B Presenting Wine to "Amon Of Ramses Ruler of Heliopolis" / C Performing a "Royal Offering" ceremony before Onuris / D Presenting an offering before Amon Re / E Offering Incense and Libation Before Montu of Medamut Lower register, right to left / F Presenting Wine to Nekhbet / G Presenting lettuce to Min / H Presenting Flowers to Tefnut / I Presenting Milk to Amon Re / J Offering incense before Racyet Tawi
3 RIII officiating before various deities Upper register, right to left A Offering Incense Before Amon Re \ B Offering Maat To Ptah / C Presenting Wine To Amon Re / D Offering Incense(?) Before Re Harakhte / E Offering Maat To Amon Re Lower register, right to left F Presenting Ointment Before "Amon Of Ramses Ruler Of Heliopolis" / G Performing Ceremony With A Nms6T Jar Before Mut / H Performing "Royal Offering" Ceremony Before Thoth / L "Elevating" Food Offerings Before Khonsu / J Offering Incense And Libation Before Amon Re Atum
5 Between pylon and Bubastide gate RIII Officiating In The Temple Service Upper register, right to left A Led by Montu into the presence of ThebanTriad / B Offering Maat Before Theban Triad / C Presenting Wine To Mut / D Performing a "Royal Offering" ceremony before Amon Re Lower register, right to left E Leaving the Palace to participate in the Temple ceremonies / F Carried in procession By The "Souls" of Buto And Hierakonpolis
A East wall
A Offering Incense Before Khonsu / B Presenting An Offering Before Two Deities / C With Uto Behind Him, Presenting Wine Before Harsaphes And Hathor Lower register
2 1e Court / 1e Pylon12
RIII Officiating Before Various Deities
123 Centre, double scene, King offering his name to Amun and Khons on left, and censing and libating to Amun and Mut on right.
From middle split view
D Offering Incense Before Nekhbet / E Performing A Ceremony With A Nm&T Jar Before Khnum And Menijit / F With Hathor Behind Him, Offering Maat Before Thoth And Sefkhet Cabwi
B South wall
Upper register
RIII Officiating Before The Theban Triad A. Offering Maat Before Amon Re And Khonsu B Offering Incense And Libation Before Amon Re And Mut
A Libation Before Amon Rekamutef and Amonet With Sebek Behind Him, Offering Maat Before Ptah And Sekhmet / C With Montu Behind Him, Presenting A "Great Oblation" Before Amon Rekamutef and Ipet / D With Onuris Behind Him, Presenting Ointment Before Re Harakhte and Tefnut
Left part, two registers, three scenes in each, I, I, King before Khons, 2, before Amun and Mut, 3· with Buto, offering wine to Harsaphes and Hathor, n, I, King offering incense to Nekhbet, 2, offering nemset vase to Khnum and MenQ.yt, 3, King, with Hathor, offering his name to Thoth and Sefkhet <abu.
RIII Officiating Before Various Deities
Right part, two registers, two scenes in each, I, I, King, with Sobk, offering his name to Ptah. and Sekhmet, 2, King, with Ptahlibating to Amun and Ament, n, I, King, with Onuris Shu, offering sphinx ointment jar to Re< Harakhti and Tefnut, z, King, with Monthu, consecrating offerings to Amun and Apet.
2 1e Court / 1e Pylon
Festival of Opet
III Pursuing Defeated Libyans
D Ramses III Slaying A Libyan Chief E Ramses III Reviewing Prisoners And Trophies Of A Libyan War
Procession of barking from Theban Triad, accompanied by sailing boats. The River Procession Of The Feast Of Opet.
C West wall
6 Wall of Bubastide court Ramses Iii Campaigning Against Syrians And Libyans Upper register, right to left A Ramses III In Battle With Syrians
2 Boats Towing The Royal Galley Approaching The Quay Of The Luxor Temple
3 The Royal Galley Towing The Barge Of Amon Re On The Nile
Bark Chapel Ramses III
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5 The Ceremonial Barges Of Mut And Khonsu On The Nile.
4 The Ceremonial Barge Of Amon Re On The Nile
1 RIIII Presenting A "Great Oblation" Before The Theban Triad
B Ramses III Returning In Triumph From A Syrian CCampaignRamses
Below are two niches, each with a king on the side walls that Chonsu offers on the back wall.
Bark Chapel Seti II A.4
Front Frieze with 3 scenes
c King who offered ointment to Mut on the right. Below are two niches with remnants of Inmutf on side walls sacrificing to King on back wall.
A.4.6 At the end two niches, (intended for images) depictions of the barque of Chonsoe, on the east wall and three niches and entrance door to the stairwell
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c Two scenes 1 king with flowers to bark from Amon adored by Wast / 2 provides image of Macet to Amon, Ament and Ptal], with frieze text and text based.
Bark Chapel Seti II 2 1e Court / 1e Pylon14
2e 1 Destroyed / 2 King offering to Mut / 3 Wine to Amon and Chonsu
d offering image of Macet to Amon and Chonsu, with royal titles below.
c Two registers with text at the base. 1st Six scenes, kneeling king, / 1 to Ptah, / 2 to Ament, / 3 Incense and water to Amun, / 4 Image from Macet to Chonsu / 5 Water clock to Mut / 6 Wine to Amun. / 2nd Three scenes, offer from the king, 1 to Chonsu, 2 Nemset vase after Mut, 3 image from Ma <et to Amon, three niches behind it, each with king on side walls attached to Chonsu and Thoth offer back walls.
b Two scenes. 1 King, with Prince Seti [Merneptal)], offering to bark from Mut, / 2 King offers image of Macet to Theban Triad, with text at base.
A.4.3 Backside: Divided in two by a vertical web of text To the west, the stones appear unfinished, but they were probably added later.
a 2 registers 1e REG 1 King offering image of Maat to Amon / 2 Wine to ReHarakte Atum / 3 Ointment to Amon / 4 Food to Thenent / 5 Image of Maat to Amon 2 REG 1 King offering nemset vases to Amon / 2 Flowers to Monthu / 3 Bread to Amon / 4 Image of Maat to Ptah / 5 King embraced by Amon /
d Double scene, sacrificing the king to Amun and Chonsu, and to Amon and Mut. Below are three niches, each with Inmutf on side walls that dragonfly to King on sled on back wall.
b Two scenes 1 king with prince before bark of Amon worshiped by goddess who personifies the sanctuary, / 2 king offering four vases to Theban Triad, with friezetext and text on base.
A.4.1 Statue of Seti II
d Double scene, king offering wine, offering incense and water, to Chonsu.
A.4.2 2 registers, 6 scenes. 1e 1 King offering two vases to Amon & Ament / 2 Flowers to Hathor / 3 Incense to Amon and Mut / 4 Food to Chonsu (serpent headed) / 5 Wine to Amon / 6 Image of Maat to Amon and Mut
New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty
b 2 registers 1 REG ½ destroyed / 3 King offering ointment to Amon / 4 Water clock to Mut / 5 Image of Maat to Amon / 2 REG 1 Destroyed / 2 King before goddess / 3 King offering nemset vases to Amon / 4 Offering wine to Ament / 5 Anointing Amon
A.4.5 At the end three recesses (intended for statues) on both sides of the chapel representations of the barque of Amon. (the naos shows the name of Seti I)
b/c King receiving life from Mut, and from Chonsu
a King depicting Macet (left) and flowers (right), after Amon and Mut, with text on the base. titles.
Chonsu chapel
The triple bark shrine would have housed the barks of Mut (west shrine), Amun (central shrine) and Khonsu (east shrine) during the various processions out of the temple made by the statues of the gods. The shrine is called "a place of honoring and praying to all the gods," and it may have served as a place where the average Egyptians could gather within the temple complex and pray. Foundation, 1st row of stones and gates of red quartzite (Ghebel el Ahma, Cairo); rest white sandstone from the south. (Ghebel Silsileh) Dim. 7/10 mtr., Gate middle H4.5, other gates H3.79 the gates (lintel and door posts) are made of quartzite
b Two scenes 1 King, with Prince Seti Merneptal], who offers sacrifices for the bark of Chonsu in the stands / 2 Offering the king to Theban Triad, with text at the base.
Amon chapel
a Lintels, thicknesses and styles, royal titles, with (King) entering inner outpost.
Exterior
a/a' 2 sandstone statues farao, H 4.65 mtr. left Louvre, right Turin
Mut chapel
A.4.4 At the end two niches (intended for images) King and prince offer at the barque of Mut, cartouches and text prince a King offering flowers to Amon and Mut.
A.5
Originally this base was assumed to be a socle for the sacred bark, but the sheer size and height of the polished block preclude that as a theory; it was almost undoubtedly an altar, which, it should be added, has been shown to predate Taharqa’s construction.
One of the buildings in every four directions Limestone kiosk in the middle of the Shoshenq I court. Excavations suggest it replaced an earlier wooden kiosk on the same location. The alabaster altar is thought to pre date the Taharqo construction, and would have belonged to this earlier building. Later, Ptolemy IV added decoration to the kiosk’s screen walls. These included scenes of the minor deities of the regional areas of ancient Egypt, called "nomes." The north side presented a line of nome gods making offerings, led by the king in the red crown and the goddess of the West. The south side depicted a parallel scene; this time the king (wearing the white crown) led a procession of nome gods accompanied by the goddess Neith. It may have been at this time the rose granite paving was added to the area.
Taharka D25
Construction materials: limestone, rose granite, calcite ("Egyptian alabaster") The building measured 20.5m wide by 29m deep. The columns were 2.99m in diameter and stood 21m high.
The function of the Taharqo kiosk unclear and to our knowledge it is unique, but due to its position in an open air court and an unroofed structure, would indicate solar rites of some kind some scholars believe it functioned in the "union of the disc/sun" ceremony. This yearly ceremony entailed bringing the cult statue of Amun Ra out from his naos out into the sunlight to unite with the solar disc and be re energized.
Traditionally, a kiosk would have been roofed, while the width of this columned structure was so great (16.25 m) as to make roofing it, even in timber, an impossibility.
A paved way, bordered with low stone parapet walls, extended from Karnak’s entrance gate to the structure’s west front where the remains of two granite colossi have been found; these statues doubtless stood one to each side, while some short distance west of them two pedestal bases probably once supported small obelisks.
i Nile gods binding SMA sign
Kiosk Taharqa 2 1e Court / 1e Pylon15
Kiosk Taharqa
j Complete column with name Taharka, Psammetikhos II and Ptolom. IV Scenes, Taharqa, usurped by Psammetikhos II, before Theban Triad k Alabaster block (?)
10 columns in the shape of the Hieroglyph Ouadj, (some of papyrus), between the columns half height walls with on the inside a/b Asiatics with name rings, Nile gods, and remains of Nubians with name rings, cPtolemaicfLower Egyptian nome divinities led by Ptolemy IV to Wast g Upper Egyptian nome divinities h King before god (?)
i Four registers, I IV. 1 Ramses II offering wine to Amun and Mut, / 2 incense to Amun and Ament, / 3 bread to Amun and Chonsu, 4 offering bouquets to Amon and Hathor
d Colossus, Ramses II with daughter Bent <anta in relief on the sides, ? a prince on the east side, and seti II cartouches on the base, granite.
3 1 King offering flowers to Amun, / 2 [Sefkhet writing King's name on leaf), kneeling before persea tree receiving beb sed from Atum, 4 1 king led by Chonsu, / 2 with Mut, kneeling before Amun, and King beyond, 5 1 [King] sacrificing to bark from Theban Triad, / 2 incoming.
Pylon II
g Three registers: 1 Destroyed 2 King offering wine to Amun and Mut 3 King who beats prisoners.
i Three registers: 1 Destroyed / 2 II smiting southern enemies for Amun, with three rows of prisoners with name rings below, / 3 Remains of similar scene from Ramses VI.
e Stela fragments, granite, Necho II, led by Monthu and preceded by a bull, get Heb sed from Theban Triad, with text from year 6 below.
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Passage Pylon II A.8.2
f text by Amon
j 1 Ramses II offering wine to Amon and Mut, / 2 milk to Amun and Isis, / 3 bread to Amun and Chonsu, / 4 bouquets to Amon and Mut. k / l Shrines (for stelae) of Ramesses I, with recycled blocks of alabaster bark shrines of Thutmose III and IV, Shrine on {I49), king protected by Nekhbet vulture with flowers on the outside, and alabaster block with nine rows, built into the floor; view of sanctuary,
j Three registers: 1 Destroyed / 2 [R sacrifice to a god] / 3 Ramses offers vase and incense to Amun.
??? Six registers, offering scenes, mostly destroyed, except riding four bulls and Ramses I purified by Horus and Thoth
Legrain 1895
Pylon II 3 2e Pylon / Hypostyle Hall16 3 – 2e Pylon / Hypostyle Hall
e Titles of Ptolemy VI
f Remains of King for a god.
h Five stops, two scenes: 1 1 Ptolemy VII offering ointment to Amun, / 2 flowers to Min / 2 1 R II (changed to Ptolemy VI) directed by Atum, / 2 with four vases to Amun, / 3 1 Ptolemy VI offering papyrus to Amun, / 2 with Thoth writing King's name on the sheet, kneeling forward persea tree receives beb sed from Re Harakti, / 4 1 Ramses II (changed to Ptolemy VI) directed by Chonsu and Atum (?), / 2 Ramses II, with Mut, kneeling before Amun, and Ramses II beyond, / 5 1 Ptolemy VII offering to bark of Amon, [Mut], and Chonsu, / 2 Enter Ramses II (changed to Ptolemy VI
c Four registers, I IV, with column of text on the outside. / 1 Ptolemy VI offering a picture from Ma <et to Ptah 2 offering food to Amen, Ament, Nu and Nunet, / 3 with Cleopatra II, before Seshet (Sefkhet <abu) writes on beb sed wall, / 4 making offerings to Osiris Onnophris and Apet.
h Four registers, Haremheb, taken over by Ramses I and II: /1 Remains of King with sacrificial table / 2 with offerings to Amon and Ament, / 3 offering sacrifices to Amon and Monthu / 4 for Amon and Chonsu.
k Three registers: 1 Horemhab, taken over by Ramses II, offering flowers, / 2 offering aba scepter to Amon / 3 Seti I offers image of Macet to Amun. .
1 1 Ramses II who offers wine, / offering flowers, to Amun, 2 1 King, with Thenent, directed by Monthu, / 2 King offering water to Amun
a / b Lintel, remaining scene At each end, Ptolemy VI Philometor offering wine to Amun.
g Five stops, two scenes (III V usurped from Seti I)
a Five registers: 1 Ptolemy VI offering oil to Amun and Maat, / 2 offering cloth to Amon and Monthu, / 3 the incense of Amun and Isis 4 offering milk to Amon and Mut 5 offering field to Aman. / b Five registers: / 1 Ptolemy VI “burn l’antyou’ offering sphinx ointment jar to Aman and Chonsu / 2 Pectoral for Amon and Mut, / 3 food for Aman and Ament / 4 greetings with NMST vases for Amun and Chonsu, 5 field to Amun and Chonsu. / Basic, renewal text of Ptolemy VII Euergetes Il.
l Five registers: / 1 Remains of King before a god. 2 [king] embraced by Amun followed by a god (?) 3 with Re Harakhti, offering image from Macet to Amun (?)./ 4 king runs to a god. King in the destroyed scene. 5 Ramses I led by Monthu and Atum,with Hathor offering to Amon.
Porch
A.8.1 Portal; Total height 28, 1 m, Length 15, 44 m, Height of the (vantaux) 18.85 m a Colossus, RII with statue of daughter Bentcanta between his legs, Cartouche of Ramses VI usurped by Pinezem b Colossus, Ramses II, feet and foot (cartouches RIII), with daughter MerytamO.n in relief on the east side, granite. c Stela, Psammetikhos II, about Nubian campaign, granite.
d 1 Ptolemy VI offering wine to Re < I: Iarakhti / 2 incense and libation to I: Iel; m, I: Iel; et, Kek, and Keket, / 3 offering libations to Ptolemy V Epiphanes, and Cleopatra I, / 4 dedicated offer to Osiris and Isis.
The second pylon stands east of the later Shoshenq court and acts as the western wall of the later hypostyle hall. The second pylon is decorated with scenes of the king in the company of the gods. A large gateway fronts the pylon on its west face. This would have served as the main gate to the temple until the construction of a new court and western gate by Shoshenq I. The interior of the pylon contained +/ 9700 talatats (50/60/27 cm, 40 kg) made of sandstone, coming from the Temple of Akhenaten (16 Aton) Horemheb significantly extended the Amun Ra temple to the west by the construction of a new pylon and gateway. During the time of its construction, it fronted an open court that led to the third pylon of Amenhotep III Most cartouches usurped by R I en R II R I later completed the decoration of Horemheb and then replaced all of Horemheb's cartouches with his own. After the gate of the second pylon was severely damaged during a fire, its interior western face was completely rebuilt and redecorated by the artists of Ptolemy VI. Along the eastern section of the pylon's passageway, damages caused by falling ceiling blocks were also repaired under the king. This time, the artists tried to respect the original 19th Dynasty scenes of R I (and R II, who usurped many of the scenes of his grandfather). They recreated as much of the relief decoration as possible, choosing a style that echoed that of the New Kingdom and even carving the Ramesside names into the royal cartouches. Construction materials: sandstone Measurements: The pylon's original height is unknown. The bases of the towers were of 46.4m long and 14.6m wide. The height of the gate's opening was 29.5m.
Two door posts, granite, each with a dedication text from Amenophis II concerning lake and plants, found under colossus
Scholars working at Karnak have recently reassessed the chronology of the Hypostyle Hall. They suggest a peristyle of papyriform columns was constructed lining the interior of the hall during the reign of Horemheb, with the main colonnade and additional columns then built under Seti I (Carlotti and Martinez 2010:140 145). This suggestion is not included in the model.
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Seti I
Seti I began and completed construction of the magnificent hypostyle hall's walls and columns. Interior decoration of the entire northern half of the hall (including its 61 columns), the southern half's western wall, and the clerestory window grills was also completed before the end of his reign. The north half of the east interior wall portrayed "the daily ritual," highlighting the king's responsibility for the maintenance of the statue of Amun Ra housed in the temple. The south half of the west interior wall included scenes of the temple foundation ceremony, where the king and the gods are shown performing important rituals before a new building at the temple was constructed. The columns in the northern half of the hypostyle hall were also decorated during the king's reign. Seti's artisans did all this work in finely carved raised relief, and the preserved scenes are some of the most vivid remaining at Karnak today.
The hypostyle hall was a huge multi was filled with 134 gigantic stone columns. 12 open papyrus columns lined the raised c central aisle stood 122 closed of the central aisle supported the stone ceiling and clerestory windows. Prior to Seti I's construction of the main hall, Ramesses I added a small station of the king against the southeast side of Pylon II. The only remains of this station are a calcite ("Egyptian alabaster") floor inscribed with the "nine bows," the traditional enemies of Egypt.
Measurements: The hall measures 103 with a 1.4 m abacus atop each capital. with a 12 m tall shaft. Clerestory windows reached up t Great Hypostyle Hall showing the extent of the decoration of Seti I (after Brand, P., The Monuments of Seti I: Plan I).
Hypostyle Hall 3 2e Pylon / Hypostyle Hall17
Ramesses II added relief scenes and highly visible cartouches or royal titles on the central line of 12 columns (left undecorated by Seti), which marked Karnak's main east/west entrance. Each of the southern group of smaller columns, also not adorned under Seti, was carved with a main ritual scene and a series of plant and bird motifs. A deeply carved line of hieroglyphs naming the king ringed each column below the ritual scene. Ramesses also ordered the re cutting of some of his father's cartouches, including those on the clerestory window grills, to his own name. Later, Ramesses IV added his own cartouches to the central line of columns, associating himself with the greatness of his ancestors. Additional ritual scenes and friezes of his cartouches were added to most of the smaller columns. Shortly after, Ramesses VI covered up the cartouches on the central columns, carving his own name atop that of Ramesses IV.
Hypostyle Hall
"The Temple called Seti Merenptah is a light in the house of Amon."
In the 18th Dynasty, royal coronations and jubilee festival rituals were held in the Wadjet Hall. In the 19th Dynasty, these events were provided with a more grand setting the hypostyle hall. Inscriptions on the hall's architraves and columns suggest that on special occasions (such as festival processions), some of the Theban populace was allowed into the hall to view the king or the divine image in its portable bark.
While the form of the hall was not substantially changed after the 19th Dynasty, a number of repairs were carried out in the Late and Ptolemaic Periods.
Most of the hall was covered with a plain sandstone pattern. The columns of the hall were also given a plain sandstone pattern, created to echo the size of the huge drums used for the construction of the columns. Photos of the relief scenes on the hall’s interior eastern wall (northern section) were placed in their appropriate location on the model. These include the scenes of the "daily ritual."
Ramesses II
Ramesses II completed the decoration of the hypostyle hall started by his father. Although his artisans began their decoration in the same style used in the reign of Seti I (raised/bas relief), they seem to have quickly changed techniques and adopted sunk relief, a quicker style of relief cutting, for the remaining parts of the hall. In the southern half of the hall, the raised relief panels of Seti were altered to match the new style.
3 King presents conical bread to Amon Re and Chonsu
1 King presents drink to Amon Re
Hall 3
3rd register sanctification of the offerings:
18 King holds his arm towards Amon Re Ithyphalique kamoetef, followed by Isis
23 King adorned with Atef, spread natron (cleaning) around the Temple for Amun Re followed by Amonit
7 P28 Tableau at the beginning of the wall on the side of the gate in the II pylon (Schw Ramesses87) II receives life and years of jubilees from an enthroned Amun Re, behind whom stands Khonsu. Mut appears behind Ramesses, cobras coiling around her papyrus staff as it protect the king’s back with life and dominion. At the left end of the scene Thoth inscribes the king’s titulary on a field defined by four staves. The right end of the scene (Amun’s plumes, as well as the texts above them and Khonsu) extends up into the clerestory of the central nave A frieze in raised relief with Sety I’s titulary (preserved between cols. 1 and 26) stands above the rest of the scene just below the ceiling of the Hall’s southern wing.
Wall
Hypostyle 2e Pylon / Hypostyle Hall
14 King dedicates the vases to Amun Re Ithyphalique kamoetef, followed by Mut
17 King offers incense and fresh water to Amun Re, followed by Rattaoey
20 King dedicates the raising of the mast for Amon Re Kamoetef
22 King with red crown and dressed in a long skirt tightens the rope (measuring) with Sechat for Amon Re Kamoetef
15 King with double crown, presents flowers to Amun
Right / Label: Taking a run for the la[dy] of heaven that he might achieve “given life like Re.”
16 King sacrifices to Chonsu
19 King makes the (Hotep di Nesoet) to Amon Re
RELIEF: Sunk, but originally carved in raised relief, of which many traces remain. These are especially noticeable on the king (shoulders, feet, back of flail, top of his wig), Amun (upper arm, back of head, back of legs and feet, sides of both plumes), Mut (back of her feet), Thoth (tail and front foot) and Khonsu (arm, beard, crook and top of his lunar disk, Upper register
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B.2
8 (Damaged) King to a god and goddess, Ramesses II receives life, years and feasts from Amun Re and Chonsu
By Weret hekau: Words spoken by Weret hekau, lady of the palace: “(I) have given to you years of eternity vas king of the Two Lands, you being risen as dual king of Southern and Northern Egypta like Re forever.” Words spoken: “(I) have given to you myriads of years. (I) have given to you the jubilee(s)c of Re. I have given to you that which the sun disk illuminates forever and ever!”
9 (Damaged) King sacrifices 'Hecatomb' for Amon Re Ithyphalique with a goddess
11 (Damaged) King presents flowers to Amun Re and a goddess
13 King dedicates the animals to be sacrificed to Amun Re, followed by Mut
Side right
24 King bareheaded draws Amon Re Ithyphalique Kamoetef followed by Isis
4 King presents flowers to Amon Re Ithyphalique and Hathor
Subject: (Right) Ramesses II, holding a crested ibis in one hand and a bundle of staves in the other, runs in the presence of lioness headed Weret hekau, while a vulture flies above. (Left) Ramesses II offers incense and libation before members of the Theban Triad. A vulture flies over the king’s head.
West South Half SCENES 1 T/M
2 King presents incense to Amon Re Ithyphalique and Amonit
5 (Damaged) Ramses II kneeling before Amon Re and Amon Re Ithyphalique (with goddesses behind them?)
6 ????
41
12 Plate P36. with ibis in hand ‘crested ibis’ runs for Weret Hekau.
21 King makes an offering to Amun Re. 2nd register scenes of fondation and consecration of the Temple 2e register
2natural.6King
27 King bareheaded dedicates five bulls to sacrifice to Ptah standing in his naos
35 The king with red crown performs the ritual 'great step', 'giving the fields four times to his father Mentu master of Thebes' With whip (flagellum) and makes for Montoe (Schw 87)
29 King with red crown offers flowers to Amun Re followed by Mut
with white crown 'gives the house to his master'
30 King with white crown anoints Amon Re Ithyphalique Kamoetef followed by Chonsu 1e register scenes related to the return barque from Luxor
Ramesses II kneels and, accompanied by fifteen members of the Theban Ennead, adores Amun Re (enthroned), followed by Mut and Khonsu (standing). A falcon doubtless Horus hovers over the king’s head, while beneath the front of its wing the serpent goddess Wadjet (perched on a basket mounted on a tall papyrus stalk) offers dominion () to () atop Ramesses’ serekh. Members of the Theban Triad are ensconced within a kiosk, their feet resting on a body of water. In Amun’s forward hand are the staves of life () and dominion ( ), from which rivulets of water stream into the pool that gathers directly under his fee wears a double stranded shebyu collar, and on his head (along with his customary doubleplumed headdress) a hemhem there is nothing exceptional about the costumes of Mut and Khonsu. The other deities all appear without their distinctive attributes (e.g., for Seth or Sobek), being distinguished merely as human males and females with tripartite wigs and generic divine costumes.
33 King makes offerings to Amun Re and Mut
King adorned with kheprech crown is kneeling behind the enneade of Karnak, opposite the theban triad / VEILED (Amun as the source of the Nile inundation), on a canopy on the water
34 King presents ribbons to Amon Re Ithyphalique Kamoetef
38 Ramesses II faces the central cabin on board the Userhet river barge of Amun he censes the portable bark shrine (inside) and those of Mut and Khonsu (behind the cabin) Type of Relief: Sunk, but originally carved in raised relief, sculptors left the interior of the cabin of Amun’s barge entirely in raised relief.
Hypostyle Hall 3 2e Pylon / Hypostyle Hall19
Observations: As in the preceding scene, sculptors never renewed the waves of water inside the band representing the Nile river when they recarved the scene.
31 (Damaged) King presents incense and fresh water to Amon Re Ithyphalique Kamoetef 32 (Damaged) This scene is hidden by stones
37 Ramesses II, together with Wepwawet, Khnum, and two forms of Horus, stand in a large papyrus skiff as they tow the river barge of Amun Re in the presence of the Upper Egyptian Meret goddess.
40 Then king offers incense and water to Amun Re Ithyphalique of Luxor 41 Frisian with cartouches
25 Ramesses II fashions a mudbrick in a wooden mold, before Amun. A falcon soars over the king’s head. Observations: Someone intentionally hollowed out a small rectangular space below Amun’s waist, perhaps to accommodate an inset roofing beam. Otherwise, all damage appears
36 Plate 36 P65
28 King bareheaded cuts a sheaf (bunch / branches) for Amon Re Ithyphalique Kamoetef
Type of Relief: Sunk, but originally carved in raised relief. Many traces of the earlier version linger at the edges of the final sunk lines, and in some cases (e.g., the coils of crowns in cols. 43 44) raised lines were never recut as sunk. The most striking example of this last expedient, in fact, is the interior of the Theban Triad’s shrine. Although the supports and roof of the shrine itself were recarved in sunk relief, most of it contents (except for hieroglyphs along the top, with their dividers) remain raised in keeping with the sculptors’ convention parts of sunken figures superimposed on others. Traces of Ramesses II’s earlier names abound in the several versions of his cartouches. His figure is higher than the negative space around him.
39 King adorned with kheprech, dedicates the offerings for Amun and Mut of Luxor placed under a canopy.
144 Seti I censer in hand approaches Amon Re master of the two lands and Hathor mistress of Denderah 145 Seti I offers the necklace Usekh to Amun Re Ithyphalique Kamutef and to Hathor who is the head of Thebes 146 Seti I places offerings on an altar to Amonrasonter and 'Hathor mistress of the castle of Sistre' 147 Plate 146P 222Seti I with white crown dedicates the four suitcases with ribbons 'mryt' to Amon Re Ithyphalique Kamoetef and to Hathor's mistress of Aphroditopolis 148 Seti I with red crown ment the four mistress of Medjedny 147 Plate 147P 224 Seti I dedicates the erection of the mast of Min to Amon Re Ithyphalique Kamoetef Southern Lands' and Horus 149 Royal take off between Atum and Chonsu 150 While Thoth records the royal observances, the king (crowned with Kheprech and kneeling) is consecrated by Amun Re Master of the thrones of the two lands. Behind A stands Hathor 'Mistress of Asyut' 2e register
131 Ramesses II (originally Ramesses I) offers jars of wine to Amun Re, accompanied by Mut while a vulture floats above the king.
Hypostyle Pylon / Hypostyle Hall
139 Ramses I offers wine to Harsiésis and Hathor van Denderah
156 Seti Ioffert Maat to Amun, holding the 'jubiles' behind the king Hathor Dame van Poent
Large tableau on the side of the gate. Royal ascent (Schw ill 25 left). Seti I (cartouches Seti I usurped by Ramses II) with fence and neck haka on the shoulders is led by goddess with horns and a sun disk (Hathor?), In her right hand with sistrum and flowers fanning for Amon Re, sitting on a throne and with Anch in right hand. Behind Amon is the goddess Mut with a normal haircut and a double crown, with Anch in his left hand. Behind the king, Chonsu is mummy shaped, with a solar disk and crescent moon, a prince's hairstyle, which records the royal titles on the palm of the millions of years. This scene is called 'royal ascent (entering the Temple) to the Temple called Seti Merenptah is an illumination in the house of Amun'.
142 Ramses I 'the right one' with red crown fills the ritual loop with oar and rudder for Amon Re master of the two lands and Hathor mistress of Dep
TWO BARKS The royal barque (montée) (on the opposite side the king?) Oeserhat from Amun, is drawn south (Luxor?) By King, Uppu, Choem and Horus of the cataracts (Surpassed / superposition of Seti I, 2 times image boat)
143 Seti I presents tables with offerings to Amon Re Ithyphalique and Hathor Mistress of the Turquiose 3e register
133 Ramesses II (originally Ramesses I) offers a tall, conical loaf of bread to Amun Khonsu. A vulture flies over the king.
157 Seti I Anoints Amon Re Ithyphallique Master of the Thrones of the Two Lands, followed by Hathor Mistress of?
154 Seti I kneeling offers a vase of silver to Amon Re who is in the Hypostyle hall and to Hathor 'Mistress of Hetepet' also resident in the hall
132 Ramesses II (originally Sety I) offers jugs of milk to ithyphallic Amun Re, who is followed by a goddess wearing the Red Crown. Her name and titles, once written in two columns of text above her head, have disappeared. A falcon soars over the king.
141 Ramses I with white crown performs the ritual loop with the vases for Amon Re 'who leads his harem' and 'Hathor lady of the Sycamore of the south'
134 Ramesses II (originally Sety I) offers a bouquet to ithyphallic Amun Re, who is followed by Mut. A falcon hovers above. 135 1st scene king kneeling in adoration for Amon Re Ithyphalique. 2nd scene king kneeling holds the vase of fragrances for Mut
1e register
Ramses I standing burns incense (fire) and makes a libation (water) for the first eight gods of the theban enneade; Montoe, Atoem, Shoe, Tefnoet, Geb, Nut, Osiris and Isis. At the level of the belt, the sky carves the figures of the previous scene.
161 Seti I kneeling offers flowers to Amun and Mut 162 destroyed 163 Seti I sacrifices to Amon Re master of the crowns of the two lands leontocephale 165 Seti I kneeling offers flowers to Min Kamoetef Ithyphallique 166 Seti I kneeling offers a vase of fragrances to Amon Re Master of the thrones of the Two Lands
151/152 Plate 151 P 229 Plate 152 P 233
167 Seti I kneeling offers flowers to Re Harakte who resides in Ermant 168 Seti I kneeling sacrifices to Hathor who is the head of Thebes Chonsu 1 Seti I kneeling offers frankincense to Amon Re Kamoetef Ithyphallique 44 Seti I kneeling offers the clepsydra to Mut 45 Seti` I kneeling and offering Maat to Amon
155 Seti I kneeling offers milk and 4 cows to Amon Re Kamoetef and to Hathor 'Mistress of Pe and Dep'
136 3rd scene destroyed
B.3 SCENES 131 T/M 170
138 Plate 138 P 209
Hall 3 2e
158 Plate 158 P 242 159 Plate 159 P 244 160 Seti I kneeling offers ribbons/strips to Chonsu mummy shaped
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137 Plate 137 P 203
West Wall North Half
140 Ramses I offers to Sobek, Tanent and Ioenyt
139 Seti I kneeling devotes the white bread to Seth, "the great one of power who resides in the Temple (called Seti meriamon is enlightening in the house of Amun), and to Nephtys
153 Seti I kneeling offers a vase of fragrances and silver to Amun Re Kamoetef Ithyphallique and to Hathor 'Lady of Cusae'
4e register Mainly Ramses I in scenes
190 Seti I with atef crown offers the vases of wine to Amon Re Kamoetef Ithyphallique
The barks leave from a resting altar for which the king is led by Montoe and Atum. The sacred barks go to the west accompanied by the king and his son, dressed in a panther skin at the head of the cortege. The king is called "Horus who repeats the coronations" Amon is called 188 Above 194 195 residual relief
North Wall
196 Seti I offers vases of ointment to Amun Re 197 procession of the holy barks from west to east, to rest in the monuments of Seti 198 Seti I kneeling is cleansed by Horus and Thot 199 the sacred ascent between Atum and Montoe
191 / 192 Plate 192 P 293
Seti I with double crown offers the Clepsydra to the goddess Oeret hekaoe lioness Persea tree
193 Seti I with the double crown offers the vases with fresh water to Amon Re Kamoetef Ithyphallique
201 The 15 gods of the Enneade of Karnak are in a naos behind Amun
B.4 171 - 201
At the same time, they incompletely suppressed pleating and the distinctive flap of his original Shendyt kilt. Plaster caulking adheres to the underside of his hands, the lower edge of his rear upper arm, and the end of the enlarged lappet of his khat headdress below his shoulder.
?? Seti I with a simple wig offers vases (wine?) To Amon Re Ithyphallique followed by a goddess
171 Seti I adorned with the Kheprech, offering flowers to Montoe
All plates on the walls 124 and 124.1 are from Seti I X quartzites found nearby Stèle Tutanchamon, usurped by Horemheb (Cairo Museum 34183)
172 Seti I with double crown lifts the offerings to Amon Re 173 Seti I with ( .hnw) crown offers incense to Amon Re Kamoetef Ithyphallique
4th tableau (Schw 50 M 28). Seti I kneeling before Amun sitting in his naos. The kneeling mode is in the position of 'the silver statue'. Dressed with the atef on top of a pair of Khnoem horns flanked by 2 uraeus. Right hand has the gate and neckhaka, his left hand supports the symbols of the Sed celebrations and of the long life hanging from the staff Amon holds in his left hand. Behind the king stands Sekhmet "the great sorceress" with a lioness head. With one hand the king is blessed, the other hand holds the 'palms of the years',
194 Seti I carries on his head a tray with offerings for Amon Re 195 Seti I presents the vases with wine to Amon Re Kamoetef Ithyphallique
174 Seti I with the white crown offers papyrus to Amon Re 175 Seti I with kheprech crown dedicates the white bread to Atum 176 Seti I with the red crown offers incense to Amon Re 177 Seti I with nemsit crown presents the 'fard md' to Chonsoe
178 181 Plate 178 P 272 >>> Plate 180 P 279
Observations: Sculptors recut the king to enlarge his proportions as follows: all of his khat wig except for its visor and uraeus; on his rear arm, the top of the forearm and the bottom of the upper arm; his rear shoulder; on his forward arm, the top of his shoulder and biceps muscle along with the elbow and underside of his forearm; the bottom of his hands; both jars; his belly; rump; instep at the ankle; both sides of his belt; and the bottom of his knee.
200 Seti I, after being received by Hathor van Denderah, enters the sanctuary in which Amon sits with Chonsu behind him. Here Seti I receives the festive years from Amon.
Hypostyle Hall 3 2e Pylon / Hypostyle Hall21
171 201 Upper register the scenes progress from East to West, the king is kneeling
4th tableau of the 2nd register. (Schw 49) Seti I wearing the blue helmet, kheprech and in the right hand the scepter fence on his shoulder. Kneeling in the holy persea, Thot writes his mystical name Men Maat Ra on the fruits of the tree. A saucer in his left hand.
189 Seti I offers the vases of wine to Amon Re Kamoetef Ithyphallique
Paint: Three dark rings of faded pigment remain on the god’s collar near his neckline, while a fourth band lies outside the carved outer edge of this collar.
98 RII Presenting A Pectoral Collar To Ithyphallic Amun Re (B 142)
90 RII With Ka Consecrating Hecatomb In The Presence Of Ithyphallic Amun Re (B 133)
95 RII Offering Wine To Ithyphallic Amun Re (Right, B 138) And Greeting Hawk Headed Khonsu (Left, B 139)
88 RII Rattling The Sistrum In Presence Of Ithyphallic Amun Re And Isis89.
94 RII Offering Incense To Amun Re (B 137)
B.5 scenes 88 t/m 109
99 RII Presenting A Broad Collar To Amun Re (B 143)
203. Sety I Kneeling, Holding Wick, In Front Of Amun Re (Left, B 302); Fragmentary Scene: Sety I Before Mut (Right, B 303)
Type of Relief: Sunk. Paint: The relief still preserves numerous traces of paint. The vulture above the king has traces of red on the lower interio part of its outstretched wing and blue on the outer edges of the wings. Faint traces of patterning can be discerned within the belt apron of the king, but the colors are not identifiable. Red is present on the legs of the king and on the coil of Amunet’s Red Crown. Yellow remains on Amun’s bull’s tail
100 RII Adorinc Before Khonsu (B 144)
104 RII Before Amun Re (Top, B 150) And, Accompanied By Goddess Thebes, Receiving Years And Jubilees From Amun Re, With Mut (Bottom, B 160)
89 RII Adoring Before Amun Re Ani Mut (Right, B 131); Fragmentary Scene (Left, B 132)
109 RII Being let in by Goddess
205. Sety I Offering Ointment To Ptah (Left, B 306) And Offering Incense To Lionessheaded
96 RII Receiving Years And Jubilees From Thoth (B 140)
204. Fragmentary Scene Of Sety I Before Khonsu (Left, B 304); Sety I Presenting Food To Amun Re (Right, B 305)
Hypostyle Hall 2e Pylon / Hypostyle Hall
102 RII Pouring A Libation On An Offering Table In The Presence Of Amun Re And Amunet (B 146) Subject: Ramesses II pours a liquid offering from an ANKH jar into a T shaped offering basin, supported by an ANKHfigure with two upraised arms, before Amun Re and Amunet. A vulture soars above the king.
103 RII Running Before A Goddess (Right, B 147) And Before [A Divinity] (Left, B 148)
106 RII Being Crowned By Hawk Headed Khonsu (Right, B 153) And Being Led In By Hathor, Who Rattles The Sistrum Before Amun Re And Amunet (Left, B 154)
Litany of the King: ³Spell for perpetuating the divine offerings: ⁴“Greetings to you (O) Atum. Greetings to you (O) Khepri. You have come into existence on the high ground and you shine in the pyramidiona ⁵in the Mansion of the Phoenix in Heliopolis, ejaculating Shu and Tefnut. May you place your two arms around king MENMAꜤATRE, given life forever. ⁶May the name of Atum, lord of the Two Lands endure in Heliopolis, like this divine offering consisting of what the son of Re SETY MERENAMUN gives to Amun together with ⁷his Ennead which is perpetuated forever.b May the name of Shu endure in ‘Upper Lasting of Place’ in Heliopolis which is perpetuated forever.c ⁸May the name of Tefnut endure in ‘Lower Lasting of Place’d in Heliopolis which is perpetuated forever. May the name of Geb endure ⁹in ‘Hacking the Earth’ in Heliopolis which is perpetuated forever. May the name of Nut endure in Hutshen(yt)e ¹⁰in Heliopolis which is perpetuated forever. May the name of Osiris ¹¹Foremost of the Westerners endure in Abydos which is perpetuated forever. May the name of Isis <endure>f ¹²in Netjeretg which is perpetuated forever. May the name of ¹³Seth lord of Ombos endure which is perpetuated forever. May the name of ¹⁴Nephthys endure in the Mansionh in Heliopolis which is perpetuated forever. May the name of ¹⁵the Ram Lord of Mendesi endure which is [perpetuated] forever. May the name [of] Thoth endure ¹⁶[in Hermopolis which is perpetuated forever. A royal offering (for) Geb (consisting of) ch]oice cuts (of meat) ¹⁷[for the gods which (they) have selected.j To them belongs their power; to them belongs their] honor; ¹⁸[to them belongs their effectiveness. What is given to them:k a royal offering] consisting of divine offerings; ¹⁹consisting of what king MENMAꜤATRE given life forever gives.”
108 RII Consecrating boxes before AmunRe B157 and presenting calves to IthyAmun B188
East Wall South Half
92 RII Offering To Amun Re (B 135)
91 RII Presenting Ritual Vessels To Amun Re (B 134)
93 RII Presenting Flowers To Ithyphallic Amun Re (B 136)
97 RII "Making A Royal Offering" To Amun Re (B 141)
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105 RII Being Purified By Horus And Thoth (Left, B 152); Decoration Above Doorway (Right, B 151)
East Wall North Half B.6 scenes 202 t/m 232
Divided into 5 elements by the 4 masts, mainly related to the daily rituals for the gods. Each element is told retrospectively 202 Sety I kneels with his arms upraised in adoration to Amun Re. A long ritual text occupies most of the space around the figures
107 RII Consecrating Hecatomb To Ithyphallic Amun Re (Right, B 155) And Offering four cups to ITHY Amun B188
101 RII Consecrating Hecatomb Before Amun Re Harakhti Atum (B 145)
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214. Sety I Presenting Lettuce To Ithyphallic Amun Re, With Isis (B 318)
208. Sety I Kneeling With Nernset Jar Before Khonsu (Left, B 310) And Presenting Ointment To Sekhmet (Right, B 311)
213. Sety I Receiving Sceptres From Mut (Left, B 316) And Presenting Macat To Amnnre (Right, B 317)
216. Sety I Presenting Two Tapers To Ithyphallic Amun Re (B 321)
227. Sety I Greeting Amun Re In The Sanctuary (Left, B 335), Breaking The Seal Of The Sanctuary (Middle, B 336), And Drawing The Bolt Of The Sanctuary (Right, B 337)
229. [Sety I] Presenting An Offering To Amun Re In The Sanctuary (B 339)
206. Sety I Offering A Drink To Khonsu (Top, B 307A) And Offering A Bouquet To Ithyphallic Amun Re (Bottom, B 308)
218. Sety I Offering A Libation To Ithyphallic Amun Re (Left, B 323), Offering A Libation To Amun Re (M Iddle, B 324), And Offering A Libation To Ithyphallic Amun Rte (Right, B 325)
215. Sety I Offering A Drink To Amun Re, With Goddess Thebes (Left, B 319) And Presenting Flowers To Ithyphallic Amun Re, With Isis (Right, B 320)
219. Sety I With Nern Set Jar Before Ithyphallic Amun Re (B 326)
224. Sety I Presenting Ointment To Re Harakhti (B 332)
220. Sety I Inside The Sanctuary, Offering Two Tapers To Amun Re (B 327)
211. Sety I Presenting Taper To Amun Re (B 314)
212. Sety I With New Year's Taper Before Ithyphallic Amun Re (B 315)
230. [Sety 1] Offering Incense To [Amun Re] In The Sanctuary (B 340)
221. Sety I Kneeling Before Osiris (Left, B 328) And Offering Incense To Ithyphallic Amun R (Right, B 329)
210. Sety I Leaving The Sanctuary (B 313)
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222. Sety I Presenting Ointment To Amun Re, With Mut And Khonsu (B 330)
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232. Litany Of The Goddess Thebes Before [Divinities] In The Sanctuary (Left, B 343); Fragmentary Scene (Right, B 344)
207. Sety I In Offering Ritual Before Amun Re (B 309)
223. Sety I Presenting Flowers To Ithyphallic Amun (B 331)
231. Sety I With Regalia Being Escorted Into Temple By Horus And [Another Divinity] (Left, B 341) And Kneeling Before [Divinity] (Right, B 342)
Hypostyle Hall Pylon / Hypostyle Hall
225. Sety I Presenting Food To Kieppm (B 333)
209. Sety I Offering Wine To Amun Re, With Amunet (B 312)
228. Sety I Presenting Bouquet To Ithyphallic Amvs Re (B 338)
217. Sety I Offering Incense To Amun Re (B 322)
226. [Sety I] With Offering List Before The Portable Bark Shrine Of Amun Re In The Sanctuary (B 334)
Paint: Little remains, although Ramesses II and the male divinities have red flesh. There are faded patterns of paint below the clapnet (representing lashings) and on the epicalyxes of the two largest papyrus blooms at the left end of the marsh. Horus’s face is white with the falcon facial markings in black.
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Bird catching scene
45 King (destroyed) navigates the boats through the papyrus towards Amon Re Ithyphallique of Luxor
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By Seshet: 42 Words spoken by Seshet, [la]dy [whois in front, she of] the double fringed sc[arf],j 43 Neith, lady of Meter,k [who is in] 44 Sais, mistress of Pe and Depl [pre eminent in Island] 45 in the Marsh:m “[You have] crossed the watersn 46 to the place where your father is, his heart being glad when he sees your strength like (that of) Monthu, (O) aggressive of arm, the lord of the Two Lands Usermaatre Setepenre, given life like Re.”
Beside Thoth: 37 The lord of Hermopolis closing the net: Words spoken: “My two arms are 38 outstretched. You have come, that (I) may spread out the cloth for you. I have come 39 to you in the marsh, after you have crossed the marshes, and after you have sprung 40 your traps. You have brought away tens of thousands of geese, and thousands 41 of green chested birds, lying inertly on the offering table of the gods forever and ever!”
42 King burns incense for his father Seti I followed by his Ka. Left wall, scenes related to the renewal of the royal powers
South Wall
4th register. Destroyed
Seven geese escape from the net, in the middle an (Ibis?). The king in the middle is helped by Chnoem and Horus. Thot, 'master of the city of the Eight, leading the way in hesert?, In the middle of the Temple of the net' gives the signal for closing the nets by means of a sash. Reference to the place where Set was caught by a net by Horus. Thot indicates by means of the length of his arms a fathom (unity). The whole is set for a goddess, hands on a sash around her neck.
3rd register. Right wall, hunting rituals
Hypostyle Hall Pylon / Hypostyle Hall
46 King sacrifices by means of neckline an oryx (a white form of Set) which lies on a sacrificial table decorated with Djed columns and (modified) Isis buttons. For the theban triad A .(M 19)
47 King embraces Amun Re Kamutef Ithyphalliqu behind which Amonit stands 48 King is cleansed by his father Osiris Seti I.
Thoth and Seshat inscribing many years of reign for RII kneeling in kiosk with Amun re
B.7 scenes 42 t/m 87
Subject: Ramesses II kneels within a shrine under the protection of Amun Re while Thoth writes down the length of his reign on three year staves and the “Mistress of Writing” brings two more year staves laden with jubilees. All these year staves terminate at their bottoms with signs (symbolizing continuity, thus complementing the references to linear time in the texts). Attached to the bottom of Thoth’s staves are the hieroglyphs (for ḥḥ.w “millions”) and (ḥfn.w “hundreds of thousands”), while each of the goddess’ staves has only (“a hundred thousand” or “myriad”). and jubilee signs between these two fronds are interspersed twice with for “all life, stability, and dominion,” and once with (ḏbꜤ.w) denoting “tens of Typethousands.”ofRelief:
ByTranslations:Khnum:
1 Words spoken by Khnum, lord of the cataract: 2 “King Usermaatre Setepenre has come 3 before you, (O) Amun, lord of the thrones of the Two Lands. 4 He has brought to you everythingc that flies; 5a pure offering to your Ka.”
Sunk, but originally carved in raised relief (figs. 88, 90, 131 132). Residue from the earlier version abounds as raised edges and incised lines along the outer contours of the figures: e.g plumes and his front shoulder; the king’s back and the terminals of his flail; the goddess’ forward shoulder; and around many of the hieroglyphs. Some elements were left as raised re upper part of Thoth’s tail and some notches on the year staves. The craftsmen partially shaved back the figures, occasionally erasing or softening interior features, e.g., the leopard’s legs at the bottom of the goddess’ dress. Ramesses II’s head and crown, however, were untouched, and here the modeling is particularly fi
44 Plate 44 P 86
By Horus: 6 Words spoken by Horus, foremost of 7 the marsh fowl: “(I) have brought to you 8 myriads of everything that alights.”
By the King: 9 The good god Usermaatre Setepenre, 10the son of Re RAMESSESMERAMUN, given life like Re.
43 King with red crown sacrifices the captured 6 birds to the Theban triad, he gets life and enlargement of the h
Type of Relief: Sunk, but originally carved in raised relief (figs. 66, 125 127). Traces of raised relief linger, particularly along the edges of the figures. In recarving the large elements, there was a tendency to set the final cut outside the raised version. By contrast, the artists cut sunk versions of hieroglyphs inside the original raised signs and, consequently, they are more slender. clapnet, as well as the clapnet itself and its contents, as raised relief.
By Thoth: 25 Words spoken by Thoth, lord of Hermopolis, pre eminent in 26 Hesret,f residing in the Mansion of the Clapnet: “Welcome, welcome, 27 (O) <son>h of Amun Re, lord of the Two Lands Usermaatre Setepenre 27 28 You have snared the water fowl in your trap. 29 30 For you the Fen Goddess has caused that the marsh fowl might fluttere 30 as you draw (shut) 31 your clapnet, and your two arms are on the draw rope together with 32 your two brothers Khnum (being) in front of you 33 (and) Horus behind you driving 34 awayi the evil ones from your path. 35 Look, (I) am your father, the lord of Hermopolis: 36my two arms are stretching the cloth for you.”
Beside Seshet: 47 Words spoken by Seshet, She of Dep and Pe, lady of Netjeret,o who is in 48 Sais, mistress of Meter, to her son, the lord of the Two Lands Usermaatre Setepenre, given life: 49 “I am your mother, who bore you by means of my beauty,p you being suckled upon 50 my two breasts, when I acted for you (as) nurse and brought up 51 your incarnation to be king on the throne of Horus like Re.”
By Clapnet: 12 13 The brave fowler, the ruler 14 aggressive of arm, who knows 15 (how to use) his hand(s), 15 16 for whom were created the 16 millions of birds 17 which he has snared.d 18 19 The Fen Goddess has come to him 19 through a desire that 20 the marsh fowl might swarme for him 21 and (so that) they may be offered 22 to his august father, 23 Amun, king of the gods 24 (namely) the dual king Usermaatre Setepenre.
By the Vulture: 11 Nekhbet the bright one of Hierakonpolis.
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2 r> l Isis, Seth (?), Neftys, Horus + / 1 r> l Hathor +, Sobek +, Tjenenet +, Ioenet +
MasonsObservations:inserted two small patchblocks near the bottom of the scene (inside Amun’s throne and in front of Ramesses II’s lap). A cluster of deep hack marks inside Amun’s throne along with lighter, more scattered pitting on the king and inside the shrine, are probably quarry damage. Nelson did not copy some finer ornamentation such as the flap which emerges diagonally above Thoth’s belt to the left of his navel119 or high modeling inside Pharaoh’s khepresh crown extending above his ear and a deep crease behind it. Thoth’s ibis head features are more elaborate than indicated, including a tiny ear, nostril, and grooves on his beak. Various incised lines in and around the king’s figure may stem from an earlier design of the reliefs on this part of the wall
Hypostyle Hall Pylon / Hypostyle Hall
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1 Words spoken by Thoth: 2 (I) have given to you millions of 3 years and myriads of jubilees, 4 5 inasmuch as your father, the lord of the gods, has ordained (that) 5 the flat lands and the hill countries 6 be under your sandals forever and ever!”
By the Lady of Writing: 9 Words spoken by the Lady 10 of Writing, she who is pre eminent in the house of documents: c 11“(I) foretell for you 12 the jubilees of Re 13 and the years of Atum.”
By Amun Re: 14 Words spokene by Amun Re, lord of the thrones of the Two Lands, pre eminent in 15 Karnak: 15 16 (O my) beloved f son of my body, 16 the lord of the Two Lands Usermaatre Setepenre, given life: 17 My heart is glad for love of you, 18 while I exult at seeing your monument. 19 (I) have given [to] you the crook and the flail, my office, 20my throne and my s[ea]t, while (I) cause your annals to be established 21for millions of years forever and ever!”
By the King: 22 The lord of the Two Lands Usermaatre Setepenre, 23 the master of strength RAMESSES MERAMUN.
By Mut: 9 Words spoken by Mut, lady of Isheru: 10 (I) have [made] your heart endure in the great place,c 11in the presence of your father, the lord of the gods, 12 his heart being joyful through love of you, [as he endows]d 13 your limbs 14 with life and dominion 15 like Re forever.
By Thoth: 16 Words spokena by Thoth, lord of Hermopolis: “See, (I) am acting in accordance with what has been ordained of 17 your father,e the lord of the gods. (I) have caused your annals to be established, consisting of millions <of>f 18 years and myriads of jubilees, (and) I have causedg your lifetime to be (as) a likeness to (that of) heaven. 19 So long as Re exists, so shall you exist. I have given to you the south(erners), gathered in submission; 20 the northerners being subdued byh your divine power. I have placed the fear of you in 21 all foreign countries, and the dread of you in the hearts of their chiefs.”i
By Iunmutef priest: 22 Words spoken by the Iunmutef priest, purifier of the Per wer shrine,j to the Great Ennead which is in Karnak: “Amun Re, king of the gods, has ordained the establishing of the son whom he loves, [the lord of the Two Lands Usermaatre Setepenre 23 as dual king of Southern and Northern Egypt. [He has] bequeathed to [him] south, north, 24 west and east, gathered together; the flat lands and hill countries being under his sandals, 25 and his arm not being opposed what is spoken in Heliopolis, is done in Thebes, and endures in the Mansion ofthe Ka of Ptah.”l
On the left are 15 mummy shaped gods of the enneade of Thebes, listening to the divine decisions proclaimed by priest Iun mustef (Schw 86 M 19). / 4 Up r> l Mentu, Atum, Shoe / r> l Tefnut, Geb, Noet, Osiris
By Individual Ennead Gods: 28 Monthu, as he gives life. 29 Atum. 30 Shu. 31 Tefnut. 32 Geb. 33 Nut. 34 Osiris. 35 Isis. 36 The Ombite.p 37 Nephthys. 38 Horus. 39 Hathor, lady of heaven. 40 Sobek. 41 Tjene<ne>t.q 42 Yunyt.
Between Thoth and the King: 7 Words spoken by the lord of Hermopolis: “I write down for you myriads of jubilees. 8 (I) cause your annals to be establisheda as ‘Horus: mighty bull, ‘beloved of Maaat,’ that you may existb forever.”
Beside Thoth’s Year staves: 43 Horus: mighty bull, ‘beloved of Maaat’, the dual king, lord of the Two Lands Usermaatre Setepenre, the son of Re RAMESSES MERAMUN, given life.
By the Ennead: 26 Words spokena by the Great Ennead residing in Karnak: “One acts in accordance with all you have ordained for your son who came forth in front of you. As for him, one acts for a doer, (therefore) be beneficent for the one who has performed benefactions […].m [We have given] to [you millions of years and]n 27 myriads of jubilees, as for a son who is as beneficent as he.o
ByTranslations:AmunRe:
1Words spokena by Amun [Re], lord of the thrones of the Two Lands: “(O) my beloved son, 2 the lord of the Two Lands Usermaatre Setepenre 3 receive for yourself the crook and the flail, years and myriads 4 of jubilees, you appearing 5as dual king of Southern and Northern Egypt.”
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By Khonsu: 6 Khonsu Neferhotep 7 in Karnak, 8 as he gives all life and all joy.
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ByTranslations:Thoth:
King crowned with kheprech crown and dressed in a long cloak, the prow of the holy barks of Amun. The bow of the barque ends and starts with a ram's head with disk. The barque is carried on the shoulders by 3 times 5 falcon souls of Pe at the front, and 13 anubish headed souls of Nekhen at the back. In the center is the first prophet of Amun 'king Oeser maat ra setep n Ra' with panther skin accompanying the barque. (Behind them stands (Osiris) Seti I crowned with the Atef)
50 The king led hands Montoe and Atum makes the royal ascent to the Temple of Amun Ra. (Schw 78/48) 51 King with white crown comes out of his palace with whip / flagellum and makes King is cleansed by Chnoem 52 P 99
Right (M 19) King crowned with kheprech receives emblems 'years and jubilees' of the teban triad and the jubiles Th ot writes on the (stem) of millions of years. To the right of Amon is 'Chonsu nefer hotep and ipet soet' in tight robes, on his head the lunar disk and in his hands all the scepters except for oadj. In front of him Amon sitting on a throne, in the left hand the scepter oeas and the palms, in his right the fence and hakhakha with the Sed symbols 'thousands of years of renewal'. The king is kneeling on a pedestal as 'the silver statue'. Behind him stands Mut, 'mistress of Asheroe' with a double palm of the years in her right hand, her left hand blessing the king. Damaged blocks were replaced and carved with newer versions of the same material, in a contemporary Greco evident in the paleography of the lowest cartouche in col. 43 and in the sinuousness of Ramesses’ forward foot (his original covered by the bottom of his then longer belt apron) (figs. 143 uncharacteristic of Ramesside art is another hallmark of their later date. The Greco Roman restorers missed recarving Thoth’s bull’s tail within the restoration block. The king’s rear leg was originally raised, traces of which are now filled with modern cement. Other anomalies may be noted. Curious shapes observed between the figures of Hathor and Sobek (Ennead) are due to bungled modern attempts at restoration in cement. At the right end, blocks have shifted, resulting in misalignment of the staff above Khonsu’s knee with what lies below
By the King: 44 Horus: mighty bull, ‘beloved of Maaat’, 45 the dual king Usermaatre
Three boats follow each other. The first is that of Amun, then Chonsu and Mut (Schw 79> 81) AMON
64 King offers flowers to Amon Re Ithyphallique with a goddess
67 Hathor suckles the young child, left king confirmed in his role by Amon Re and Chonsu
54 King, with Meret behind him, running with the hepet and oar for Amon Re and Chonsu
60 King burns incense for Amon Re Ithyphallique and Isis
Hypostyle Hall 2e Pylon / Hypostyle Hall26
68 King crowned with Atef leads the 4 cattle for Amon Re Kamoetef Ithyphalliqu
71 king with red crown fulfills the ritual course of 'the big step' with the vases, accompanied by bull for Amon Re Kamoetef Ithyphalique. (Schw 74)
59 King offers milk to Amon Re and Mut
By Horus: 12 Words spoken by Horus the Behdetite: “I establish 13 for you the Southern Egyptian crown and the Northern Egyptian crown, they being established on your brow 14 you appearing as Horus, lord of the palace, after you have gone forth with the White Crownd ona your head, (and) you having come into existence [a]se one who takes possession of the Double Crown, (O) lord of the Two Lands USERMAaATRE!”
King is accompanied by the souls / spirits of Pe and Nekhen, he receives attention from a goddess
77 King crowned with the double crown presents the sacred animals to Amun Re and Neith
By the King: 15 The dual king, lord of the Two Lands Usermaatre, 16 the son of Re, master of strength RAMESSES MERAMUN, given life like Re.
63 King receives regalia from Amun Re, on both sides Chonsu and Mut, while Thot writes down the royal jubiles
69 King kneeling bare headed on the 'sma taoey'. Horus, great Neter, Master of Mesent, and Thot, Master of the city of the Eight unite for the king the two lands north and south under the two feet, and assure him the kingdom of the double Horus' Horus of the north and Seth of the South '(Schw 76)
55 King offers milk to Amon Re and Mut
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56 King offers Nemset vase to Amon Re Ithyphallique and Amonit
Frame of the central door
By Nekhbet: 9 Words spoken by Nekhbet the bright one of Hierakonpolis: “My two arms 10 are your protection and are enclosing your limbs, that you may be rejuvenated 11 like the solar disk in the sky, (O) master of strength RAMESSESMERAMUN!”
70 King crowned with Atef kneeling before Amun and Neith sitting under a canopy. Behind the king is the goddess Mut Uret hekaoe lion head shaped holding the jubilee years
58 King, with Above Egyptian Meret behind him, running with the vases for Amun Re and Mut
Observations: A considerable amount of the plaster wash is preserved in the scene. Some of the plaster infill which masked quarry damage has fallen out below the king’s knee, inside Nekhbet’s throne, and around the lower kilt and the knee of Horus’ advancing leg. Apart from such defects, and some widening of the block joints, this relief is in excellent condition.
King and priest Iunutef present sacrifices to the image of his father Osiris Seti I in his naos
73 King crowned with the atef, dedicate the 4 suitcases with ribbons / strips 'mryt' for Amon Re
Ramses II seated on his throne with the double crown (the white one for the red !!) and the royal stanchions (not crossed !!). (Sch 73). Female Neters on both sides. In the east Nekhebit de Witte, mistress of the south, assures her protection by 'uniting with his limbs' and 'rejuvenating the image of the disk Aton in the sky'. In the west, Oeadjit is mistress of the north. Behind Oeadjit stands Thot who puts the king on the red crown and confirms his divine origin and justifies his reign like his father Horus son of Isis. Behind Nekhebit is Horus van Behedet who offers the king the white crown and assures him that he is due both the red and the white crown and that he appears as Horus.
Left wall, purifying the barks and the consecration of the divine names
1 Words spoken by Wadjet: “My two arms 2 surround you, with life and dominion, 3 (O
Left wall
Paint: Large amounts of polychrome remain intact, especially in the middle and upper parts of the scene.
By Thoth: 4 Words spoken by Thoth, master of the god’s words: 5 (O) my bodily son whom I love, 6 the master of strength RAMESSES your head 8in order (for you) to take possession of the Two Lands by rightful claim like your father Horus son of Isis, every foreign country being gathered in your grasp, (and) you being rejuvenated like Re.”
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62 Plate 62 P 131
75 King presents his name to Amon Re Ithyphallique (from Luxor?) 1st register. Right wall, procession of the boats.
74 P 147
61 King offers Nemset vase to Amun Re, with behind it and deified statue of Seti I.
72 P144
ByTranslations:Wadjet:
57 King Incense Amon Re, with behind and deified statue of Seti I on the side of the door jamb a relief with King for Amon Re Ithyphallique and in crowned Amon Re
65 King with sacrificial list for a deified Seti I in a barque
King crowned with the kheprech burns incense in front of the 3 sacred barks which stand still on their resting altar, behind the barks the king Seti I
66 Chnoem models the young king on a potter's wheel, Must find out. The child is depicted alone, unlike in the Luxor Temple where his Ka is present. (The location of the image is exactly above the Persea scene)
253
The king is accompanied by Tum master of Heliopolis and by Mentu 'master of Thebes' to the sanctuary of his father Amun. King is crowned with the kheprech kneeling under the Persea tree with in his left hand the fence and the nekhakha on his shoulder and in the right hand he supports the symbols of the Sed feast that Amon offers him sitting in his naos. Behind the king stands Thot 'master of the Eight' and god of writing, he writes the name of Ramses II on the fruits of the Persea tree. Above the king in the left cartouche the short name of Ramses II Oeser Maat Re. Above it the winged solar disk with multicolored feathers, great Neter of Behedet (Edfoe)
251. Ramesses Ii Presenting Macat To Re Harakhti (Left, B 373) And Offering Incense And Libation To Amun Re (Right, B 374) . Ramesses Ii Offering A Bouquet To Amun Re (Left, B 382) And Offering Conical Loaf To Ithyphallic Amun Re (Right, B 383) . Ramesses Ii Being Led Into The Sanctuary By Hawk Headed Khonsu, While Mut Strokes Chin Of Amun Re (Top, B 388) And Offering Wine To Geb (Bottom, B 359) Ramesses Ii Offering Bouquet To Ithyphallic Amun Re (B 366) / 255. Ramesses Ii Offering Flowers To Amun Re, With Mut (B 375) Ramesses Ii Offering A Drink To Ithyphallic Amun Re~ (B 384) / 257. Ramesses Ii Before Amun Re (B 390)
79 P 159
129. RII Annointing Amun Re (B 193) / 130. RII Presenting Conical Loaf To Amun Re (B 171A)
127. RII Presenting Ointment To Amun Re (B 180) / 128. Ramesses 11 Censing Amun Re (B 186)
243. Fragmentary Scene (Left, B 385A); Sety I Before Amunet (Middle, B 385) And Before Amun Re And Khonsu (Right, B 386)
112. RII Kneeling Before [Divlnity] (Top, B 173) And Being Crowned By Divinities (Bottom, B 194)
Vestibule
120. Two Fragmentary Scenes: King Before Divinities (B 190 [Right], 191 [Left])
118. RII Receiving Years And Jubilees From Thoth (B 178)
By Mut: 5 Words spoken by Mut, lady of the papyrus columns: “(I) have given to you 6
By Khonsu: 8 Words spoken by Khonsu Neferhotep: “(I) have given to you 9 the crook and the flail, and life and dominion to your nose. 10I have given to you eternity as 11a l your name [might endure]b in Thebes just like the name of Atum endures in Heliopolis.”
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By Winged Disk: 21 The Behdetite, the great god of variegated plumage, as he gives life.
116. RII Offering A Bouquet To Ithyphallic Amun Re, With Isis (B 196)
1 Words spoken by Amun Re king of the gods: 2 (O) this true son of my [bod]y,a the protector 3 who is upon my throne, the lord of the Two Lands USERMAaATRE, 4(I) have given to you all life, stability, and dominion, and all health on my part.”
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ByTranslations:Amun:
Hypostyle Hall 2e Pylon / Hypostyle Hall
111. RII Being Led By Monthu And Atum Into The Presence Of Amunet
. RII Presenting Wine To Nut (B 176) / 123. RII Presenting Onions To Amun Re (B 179) / 124. RII Presenting Nemset Jar To Atum (B 185)
119. RII Being Led By Mut Into The Presence Of Amun Re (B 183, 184)
121. Bamesses Ii Receiving Regalia From A [Divinity] (B 197; B 198 To The Left Is Lost)
By the King: 22 The good god, son of Amun, protector of the one who is in Thebes, 23 the dual king USERMAaATRE, 24 the son of Re RAMESSES MERAMUN, 25 given life like Re forever.
Eastern Vestibule, North Wing (Plates 233 57 + 265)
254.
114. RII Offering Conical Loaf To Ithyphallic Amun Re (B 182)
252
Vestibule of the Third Pylon (Plates 110 30 + 261, 233 57 + 265)
233. Sety I Offering To [Divinity] (B 354) / 234. Sety I Presenting Ointment To Divinity With Goddess (B 361) / 235. Sety I Presenting Macat To Ptah, With Sekhmet (B 362) / 236. Sety I Pouring A Libation Before A Divinity (Left, B 368) And Offering Incense To Goddess (Right, B 369)
78 Royal ascent between Montoe and Atoem
relief, although it tends to be flatter and less subtly carved and embellished than on the walls farther north. The precise boundary between Sety’s decoration and that of his son is slightly ambiguous due to conditions on the west face of the pilaster (ibid., pl. 261:d), where royal cartouches survive in only two of the six scenes (ibid., pls. 118–19), but as both these were initially completed by Ramesses II, he may plausibly be credited for all of them.612 The pres ence of bowing figures of the king in most of these scenes suggests that Sety I’s draftsmen had laid out painted cartoons for more of the decoration on the vestibule than his sculptors were able to carve in relief before the king’s death (ibid., pls. 113–29, 261:b–f). As on the west wall and west wing of the south wall, Ramesses’ artisans carved their new monarch’s earliest reliefs on the western pilaster of the vestibule in raised relief much like his father’s, featuring the shorter form of his prenomen Wsr-MꜢꜤt-RꜤ (ibid., pls. 117–21, 261:d). Later, they continued their work Plan 14. Diagram of the vestibule of the Third Pylon, north wing, showing the location of each scene listed by plate number
By Thoth: 13 Words spoken by Thoth, 14 lord of Hermopolis: “I inscribe for you 15 millions of jubilees,16 your years (being) 1 countries being gathered under your sandals. 20 I have inscribed your titulary as Horus: mighty bull, ‘beloved of Maaat,’ which endures upon the august Ished tree in the “Mansion of the Ka of Ptah,” and which is established in the Southern City.”
117. Amun Re (Top, B 170); RII Before Ptah (Bottom, B 175)
113. RII Offering Incense To Khnum (B 177)
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Persea Tree (Sch 72)
110. RII Before (Divinity) And Offering Four Cups To Ithyamun
125. RII Presenting A Bouquet To Ithyphallic Amun Re (B 192) / 126. RII Presenting Macat To Amun Re (B 199)
256.
115. RII Receiving [Life] From Amun Re, With Amunet (B 189)
Translation and Commentary 315
612 Most ambiguous is the third scene from the top, where Nelson recorded traces of the of Sety I’s nomen epithet mr-n-Ptḥ but our own collation differs: see our commentary to GHHK I.1, pl. 119:11.
237. Sety I Offering Lettuce To Ithyphallic Amun Re (B 370) / 238. Sety I Presenting Ointment To Amun Re (B 371) / 239. Sety I Kneeling Before Khonsu (B 377) / 240. Sety I Offering A Bouquet To Ithyphallic Amun Re (B 378) / 241. Sety I Presenting Flowers To Amun Re, With Mut (B 379) / 242. [Sety I Before Re Harakhti And Ius Acas (B 380)
244. Sety I Offering A Drink To Mut (B 356) / 245. Sety I Kneeling Before Ithyphallic Amun Ret And Isis (B 363) 246. Sety I Offering A Drink To Amun Re, With Amunet (B 372) / 247. Sety I Offering A Bouquet To Ithyphallic Amun Re, With Mut (B 381) 248. Sety I With Nernset Jar(?) Before Amun Re And Goddess (B 387) / 249. Ramesses Ii Presenting Ointment To Khonsu (Top, B 357) And Presenting Macat To Ptah (Bottom, B 358) / 250. Ramesses Ii Offering Incense To Mut (Left, B 364) And Presenting Ointment To Thoth (Right, B 365)
EXTERIOR WALL NORTH EAST
1 Side: King Seti I attacks the Sashu Bedouin close to a city in Canaan (Seti beloved of Ptah, gifted with life like the sun, beloved of Menhit (lion headed goddess of war) In his chariot, the king shoots arrows at the Shashoe, marauding Bedouin tribes from Palestine, who made the area unsafe between the border of Egypt (Zaloe) and fortress Pa Kanana. The Shashoe depicted with thin faces, long sharp noses, pointed beards and wrinkled. On the hill three figures the middle one breaks his lance as a sign of surrender.
Many traces of paint survive in the deep outer cuts of the figures and hieroglyphs. / 14A (or The) town of Canaan. /
The bottom register 1 to 5 (Sashu Campaign) has a historically probably correct interpretation. The register above 6 through 10 (Yenoam Campaign) has a more symbolic value.
2 King receives Tribute from Asian (Syria) princes
Hypostyle Hall
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Two forts are depicted at the top. Below the right circular lines (?). Left on a hill (?) The magistrates of the city of Raphia (name destroyed), while the king says goodbye in his chariot to the west. The king's face has changed (double lines) At the bottom, scene 2 and scene 3, some (5?) Wells and fortresses, An array of elaborate metal vessels, 2 symbolizing the Syrians' tribute, is placed in front of the fortress on the hill (top left).
B.8 - 1 T/M 21
The king carries the prisoners (the great chiefs of Retenoe). He takes a (symbolic) big step to the west, in his fists he hol prisoners, the whip and the harpoon, and the bow and the reins of the horses.
This small scene depicts the military king in his moment of victory. sickle sword, he grasps the ropes binding his prisoners as they kneel in submission at his feet. The top and most of the bott gone, but it appears that the Asiatic just in front of the king is kneeling with his body facing to the right, with his head and shoulders twisted around so that they face the king: his two feet and the curving bottom of his robe can be seen at the very bottom of the scene.
7 Attacks on the city of Yenoam
10 Offering of spoils to theban triad
This large scene occupies the height of two full registers and is placed between the east jamb of the central doorway and the two registers of battle scenes on the east dominated by an immense figure of Seti I, who grasps with his left hand a stake to an assemblage of Libyan, Nubian and Asiatic prisoners is bound: a mace is held in his upraised right hand, as he shifts his weight onto his left leg before striking the prisoners at his Thefeet.')prisoners
In this scene Seti presents the spoils of victory to his divine patrons, Amon, Mut and Khonsu. The king stands, facing the Theban Triad, in the middle of the scene: garbed simply, wearing a wig with the fillet headdress, and with an empty quiver strapped to his back, he gestures with his right hand towards three subregisters of ornamental vessels that represent tribute from the campaign.1 His left grasps his bow and also the draw ropes leading the two rows of Asiatic prisoners behind him.
Hypostyle Hall 3 2e Pylon / Hypostyle Hall29
The Asiatic towns lie in hilly, wooded country, in which the fleeing enemy attempt to hide themselves: one man at the far left is seen trying, in effect, to crawl out of the scene. The towns themselves are conventionally rendered fortresses, surrounded by moats. On the ramparts of the lower fort, "the town ofYenoam," we see the city elders raising their hands in supplication while the leader of the procession the city's prince? holds up a brazier.4 The town above this, for the most part now lost, was probably Hamath or (less believably on purely historical
9 Capture the prisoners.
11 Ritual destruction of the vanquished
8 Binding the prisoners
are a mixed group: a Libyan (left, eyes raised towards the king) and a Nubian (right, eyes downcast) occupy the forefront, while assorted foreigners (mostly Asiatics) are shown behind, either in profile or full face. Those on the left side of the stake raise their hands beseechingly towards the king, while on the right side they show an attitude of worship towards Amon Re, who stands on this side. The god is drawn on a somewhat smaller scale than the king: he dominates the prisoners' figures only because he stands on a ground line higher than theirs. His figure, with his right arm outstretched, extending the sickle sword (bpi) towards the king, was at some point shrouded with a veil, for there are rectangular drill holes his right fist and above his right arm. His face, lying on the corner joint of three blocks, was carved on a separate stone patch that has been lost. Beneath him, on a far smaller scal goddess of the Theban nome: the hieroglyphic nome sign is mounted on her head; in her right hand she grasps a bow and a sheaf of arrows, and a compound mace in her left. Both divinities hold with their left hands the ropes that bind each member in the rows of name them (cf. pl. 17): the rings, a characteristic part of such triumph scenes from the early Eighteenth Dynasty, consist of small ovals with a crenellated border in effect, a fortification.
lists which are not related to the battles or places provided. The correct historical interpretation is unlikely. The register above 15 to 18 (Lybian Campaign). 19 = Kadesh (Battle Reliefs Seti oip107.pdf)
The bottom register 12, 13, 14 (Hittite Campaign) has a large number of
Hypostyle Hall 3 2e Pylon / Hypostyle Hall30
Exterior wall North West
14 Sacrifices and prisoners to Theban triad (Amun, Mut Sekhmet, Chonsu) and Maat (PL36)
An empty quiver is strapped to his back by means of two straps that hang in front of his chest (cf. pls. 14, 29, 34), and in his left hand he grasps his bow and also the lead ropes of the two rows of Hittite prisoners behind him. With his right hand he gestures towards the three rows of sacks and ornamental vessels that represent the Hittites' "tribute" (cf. pl. 32),2 while above his head hovers the guarding vulture goddess, "as she gives life and dominion." To the left, inside a kiosk surmounted by a frieze of cobras, Amon is seated upon a block throne. An offering stan jar, as well as several bouquets, is set before him; while behind, instead of the other members of the Theban Triad, we see the lioness Sekhmet; the moon god Khonsu, with the crescent disk upon his head; and Ma'at, with her characteristic headdress of a single
The warrior king is seen standing erect within his chariot as he charges into the masses of Hittite foemen. The reins fastened around his waist, he fires volleys of arrows into the fleeing army. Simply garbed as is his wont, he wears the simple hair wig that he also used in the scene of single combat with the Libyans (pl. 29), a quiver being secured to his back by a pair of straps that hang down in front of his Thebody.main focus of the king's charge is a Hittite chieftain in h team. Though smaller than the king, this figure is much larger than the other be taken, if not precisely as the Hittite king since the text refers only to "their chiefs" in this battle then at least as the characteristic exponent of enemy power. The shield bearer has already fallen, pierced by a javelin, and other missiles have apparently maddened the horses, who plunge forward uncontrolled. The
12 King fighting the bow against the Hittiten
13 Return to Egypt with the prisoners (PL35)
As in other registers, Seti I is seen leading his captives into the presence of the gods and presenting the spoils of victory. The king wears the Blue Crown (with the usual two streamers hanging down his back)' and has a long translucent skirt over his customary kilt and sporran.
Seti I is seen in battle with the Libyans: the king stands against the outer frame of his chariot, his left foot on the pole connecting the wagon to the horse team, and the horses' reins tied around his waist. He wears the Blue Crown and a pleated kilt, with the sickle sword in his upraised right hand being further secured by a strap around his wrist. The quiver on his back being empty (although there are plenty o chariot's rear javelin case), he uses his bow to seize a Libyan chieftain around the neck while preparing to strike him with his Thesword.chariot
20 Offering estimates (taxes) to the Temple
17 Return with prisoners Libyans
Three registers, 1 III, four scenes in each.
B Two registers. I, King in chariot attacking two forts, with spearmen climbing hill with plants. II, (superimposed) King, with ka, smiting captives before Am11n and Horus in the east below, both holding name rings of Palestinian cities. (name rings incomplete, and called north Cwall)
FRAGMENT DE STATUE PORTE - ENSEIGNE NORD MONTANTS DE PORTE D’AMENHOTEP II
STATUE PORTE ENSEIGNE DE SÉTHI II
Below and to the right are the routed Libyans, broken under the force of the king's charge. Nearly all of them wear the long cloak, knotted around the neck, and a plume in their hair. Each man wears the sidelock, however, and a penis sheath. In addition to bows and arrows, the Libyans are armed with short swords: note what could be a scabbard in the left hand of the man at the upper right end.
STATUE PORTE - ENSEIGNE DE SÉTHI II
STATUE D’UN ROI AGENOUILLÉ PRÉSENTANT UNE TABLE D’OFFRANDES DE SÉTHI II
Hypostyle Hall 3 2e Pylon / Hypostyle Hall31
is shown in exceptional detail, down to the figured pin through the axle; and note the unstrung bow in the chariot's front javelin case.1 The solar disk with two flanking uraei above his head and also the vulture goddess to the right both extend their protection over him; while behind his back is a humanoid ankh figure holding a broad fan, as well as the customary "Protection of all life, stability and dominion behind him" text.
21 Ritual destruction of the vanquished for Amun
A South Side,
Two registers. I, King on foot attacking fort, ll, [King] smiting captives before Amun holding name rings and Wast with bow and arrows below.; list of seven countries behind King,
16 Fight with spear / javelin against a Libier (Schw ill 16 PL)
STÈLE DE LA CAMPAGNE NUBIENNE DE PSAMMÉTIQUE II OBJETS DÉCOUVERTS
I, x, King on foot attacking two Retenu forts, 2, King in chariot attacking foes and [two forts], 3, King on foot binding captives before two forts, 4, King on foot attacking two forts, with falling men. n, I, King in chariot attacking Syrian chariots and forts, :z, King on foot attacking two forts, 3, King in chariot attacking Syrians and two forts, 4• King on foot presenting captives to Amun. Ill, 1, King in chariot overwhelming Syrian in chariot and attacking forts of Sabat and Takat, z, King, holding and driving captives, mounts chariot, 3, King in chariot driving captives, 4 (superimposed), King presenting captives to Amun
B.9 Wall East
Exterior walls South
15 Fight with (hell swipe / knife / sickle) against the Libiers (PL28)
18 Offering the spoils to Theban triad
19 Fight with bow and arrow at Kadesh, land of Amun
13 Ceiling from Alabaster of Amenophis II found in the southern pylon
19 11 fragment calcite monument to Tutmose IV
g/h Foundations of the two columns of the gilded roof for the fourth py lon (TIV)
Pylon III 4 Pylons & courts III IV V VI32 4 –
9 55 blocks from the Hatshepsut red quartzite bark chapel found in the northern and southern pylon
Amenhotep III cleared away the "festival court" of Thutmose II and the numerous pillars, bark shrines and other monuments decorating this space to construct his new pylon. These features were dismantled and used in the foundation and fill of Pylon III, where they were found (often in quite good condition) in modern times. The construction of this new pylon shifted the main temple entrance eastward, remarkable as the temple until this time had gradually moved further and further west as the pharaohs continued to expand outward. The motivation for this change in policy is unknown. Scholars working at Karnak have suggested the king intended to build a colonnade in front of the pylon, similar to the one he sponsored at Luxor temple (Carlotti and Martinez 2010:134 138).
Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten
A King is accompanied by the souls / spirits of Pe and Nekhen, he receives the welcome from a goddess while Thot writes down the royal jubiles
Top register destroyed 3rd register scenes related to the renewal of the royal powers
Amenhotep III
10 Door posts limestone of Hatshepsut
Buildings found in the III Pylon
6 Fragments of 2 limestone monuments of Amenophis I. One of them is a copy of the white chapel of Sesostris I.
14 Rest chapel of the alabaster barque of T IV associated with Amenophis III
c The disappeared northern obelisk (TIII) (Fragments found in the square and in the corner of Philipus Arrideus)
?? B.11.A
B King followed by goddess receives the emblems (Ÿ) and (^) from Amon behind which Chonsou stands
a/b The (oldest) set of obelisks for the fourth pylon (TII) Only the foundations found under the 3rd pylon
f The intact southern part of the set of obelisks for the fourth pylon (TI) 4 sides; cartouches with lines of text TI in middle register. Height 19.6 / width base 1.84 / width top 1.65 m Cartouches and lines text RIV and VI in outer registers.
18 228 sandstone parts of the 'Festival Hall' of Thutmose IV
Pylon III
5 Rest altar of a barque from alabaster in the name of Amenophis I associated with Thutmose I), forming the foundation of the entire north eastern part of the south pylon
i Foundations Amenhotep II chapel >>>> OUTDOOR MUSEUM
Pylons & courts III-IV-V-VI
4 Fragments of a Stela of Ahmosis
The inscribed decoration glorifies the jubilee (heb sed) festival of Amenhotep III and presents the king and the god’s sacred bark on a festival journey to Luxor temple. Originally, some scenes depicted the king’s son accompanying his father, but these depictions of a young Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten were later defaced.
1 White Chapel of Sesostris I, almost completely recovered in the southern part, reconstructed in 1938
20 Alabaster chapel from Hatnoeb, bronze (from Asia) doors with images from electum
16 Fragments of door jambs from a limestone gate Amenophis II
11 Fragments of barque sanctuary in Alabaster from T III
Construction materials: sandstone Measurements: Pylon 3 measures 28m tall.
e The northern obelisk, just a slanted broken off piece, still standing upright in 1743 by Pococke, probably left without inscr iptions by TI and later engraved by TIII
Vestibule III Pyloon
8 Sandstone T II sills found in the northern part
15 Monument with sandstone pillars of T IV found in the northern part
12 Relief of an archery Amenhotep II, Luxor Museum
Akhenaten helped finish the decoration of his father's pylon and added (or completed) the vestibule/porch to the gate's west face. Relief scenes on the vestibule depicted Akhenaten in both traditional style and pose as triumphant King smiting his enemies. The gate’s decoration remained unfinished, however, seemingly a casualty of the king's shift in focus to east Karnak.
3 Bas relief from limestone of Ahmosis and Ahmes Nefertari (northern part)
j Piece of an obelisk
7 Monumental gate of limestone in the name of T II
B.11
The other consists of a number of chambers that replaced Thutmose III with his, located north and south of the rooms of Hatshepsut
17 Fragment of a beld of Amenhtep II Height 21 cm. Cairo Museum
2 Pink granite pedestal in the name of Amenemhat III and Amenemhat IV (southern part)
Obelisks / Shelter
d The disappeared southern (TIII) (Fragments found in the square?)
Pylon III 4 Pylons & courts III IV V VI33
Behind the king, the goddess Mout Ouret hekaou is lion headed holding the jubilee years
1st register, the purification of the barks and the consecration of the divine names
2nd register rituals at the coronation
Behind Nekhebit is Horus van Behedet who offers the king the white crown and assures him that he is due both the red and the white crown and that he appears as Horus.
D King presents sacrifices for the barque in which a king stands (Seti I)
H King remets his name to Amon Re Ithyphalliqu (from Luxor?)
Two damaged goddesses (Hator and Maat?) Standard with a standing jackal, Wepwawet 'opener of the road' Superposition, see also below Original depiction of Amenhotep IV / Akhenaten behind King Amenhotep III (co regent?), later replaced by a sacrificial table King with offerings for the god's shrine, a flower arrangement in his left hand and an incense burner in the right For him a smaller figure with a 'sechem' scepter and vase, added later (19 dynasty) In front of the shrine are: standard (with falcon head?), Obelisks and flagpoles
A King crowned with Atef leads the 4 cattle for Amon Re Kamoutef Ithyphalliqu
B.12 REAR (FRONT) WALL III PYLON
F King crowned with the atef, consacre the 4 suitcases a bandets of ribbons / strips (mryt) for Amon Re G (Sch 73) Ramses II seated on his throne with the double crown (the white one for the red one !!) and the royal stanchions (not crossed !!).
D (Sch 72) PERSEA TREE
Large scene next to the entrance of Amenhotep III, of which the feet and h.e.e.a. can be seen In the middle we see a pavilion (?) on a stage (decorated with anch, djed and >> signs), sitting on the right side a deity (Amon?), standing behind him a goddess (Must?), behind the goddess a male figure facing the other side. Right next to the podium in front of the deity a female person (?). Below this representation are rectangular holes that are the must for glazed tiles. Bottom register of Ramses III, remnant of lines and reliefs In addition to the large scene, an offering of four bulls bound together, a number of lines of text and the king. Among them the beginning of three registers of heavily damaged texts of Ramses III
F Royal child is fed by a goddess in front of Amun (and Chonsu?)
E King, and priest Iounmoutef present offerings to the image of his father Osiris Seti I in his naos
C King crowned with Atef kneeling before Amun and Neith seated under a canopy. (Amon lazy remet les jubiles).
Behind Ouadjit stands Thot who puts the king on the red crown and confirms his divine origin and his government justifies like his father Horus son of Isis.
Ribbons hang from the bow. In the foreground the King trampling his enemies before a deity, 25 standing rowers, with the remains of a mast with tarp (s) visible above them, for the rowers three servants who pay tribute to the pharaoh. King looks back at how the Oeserhat barque fares, with a mate with large straps on the stern Ram heads with collars on the front and back and on the head a sun
The king is accompanied by Toum master of Heliopolis and by Mentou master of Thebes, to the sanctuary of his father Amon. King is crowned with the kheprech kneeling in the Persea tree with the fence and the neckhakha in his left hand on his shoulder and in the right hand he supports the symbols of the Sed festival which Amun offers him sitting in his naos. Behind the king stands Thot master of the Eight and god of writing, he writes the name of Ramses II on the fruits of the Persea boat Above the king in the left cartouche the short name of Ramses II Ouser Maat Re. Above it the winged solar disk "with multicolored feathers, great Neter of Behedet (Edfou)
C King offers flowers to Amon Re Ithyphalliqu followed by a goddess
C Royal ascent between Montou and Atoum
E Chnoum makes the royal child on his potter's wheel in front of a goddess The child is depicted alone, unlike in the Luxor temple where his Ka is present. (The location of the image is exactly above the Persea scene)
Top part of the pylon disappeared
Bark of the king:
D (Schw 74) king with red crown performs the ritual course of "the big step" with the vases, accompanied by a bull for Amon Re Kamoutef (Ithyphalique).
B King crowned with the double crown presents the sacred animals to Amun Re and Neith
A King crowned with the kheprech burns incense for the 3 sacred barks which stand still on their resting altar, behind the barks the king Seti I 1/2/3 BOATS
Scene of the OESERHAT BARK drawn by the king's barque
B (Schw 76) King kneeling bare headed on the (sma taouy). Horus, great Neter, Master of Mesent, and Thot, Master of the city of the Eight, unite the two lands north and south under the two feet before the king, and assure him the kingdom of the double Horus (Horus of the north and Seth of the South)
Female Neters on both sides. In the east Nekhebit de Witte, mistress of the south assures the king her protection by "uniting with his limbs" and "his rejuvenation of the image from the disk Aton in the sky ". In the west is Ouadjit mistress of the north.
13 King offers a statue of Maat to Amun. 14 King with Anch and Djed column kneeling before Amun
3 3 registers, 1 King before [god], / 2 Offering ointment to Min, / 3 Prince offering flowers to Amon (Amon destroyed), with name of door at bottom. Nis Two columns of text of RIX.
shrine is the king again, now with an oar / Superposition, see also earlier / Original depiction of Amenhotep IV / Echnaton behind King Amenhotep III (co regent?), Later replaced by Anch's sign with fan in hands / On the stern of the ship a number of poles with the steering belts with behind a ram's head
D OuterPoortlintel,
G Corridor RII, Usurped from Toetmosis Ill. Receiving life from Amon, with name of door at bottom. / Ptolemy III and Berenice II] before Hatthor Isis with small Nefertem and Harpocrates [latter added by Ptolemy IV and Arsinoe Ill). / King before Mut, and before Wast with bow and arrows. / King receiving life from Amon. / Royal titles.
4 3 registers 1 King offers Nemset vessel (god destroyed) 2 Offering ointment to Min 3 King offering flowers to Amon E RIX, with two gods, before Theban Triad, with dedication text below
On the far left is a large representation of the Theban triad, completely lost. Underneath (must) holes for the glazed tiles. Stela (Ramesside) on the right end with the remains of endowment text of gifts to Amun. Basic Three lines of text, at the top one of Ramses II, others of Ramses III, Scene Right end Ramses III 1 offer [wine?] To Amun 2 who offered a sphinx jar from the sphinx to Monthu, 3 offering to Chonsu 4 censorship to a goddess.
Later wall of Ramses IX (with a bulge at the gate). Gate whose deck cover has been restored. To the left of the gate relief: King in the middle, to his right two gods. On the left the Theban triad a/a' Bases of two sandstone sphinxes, usurped by Merneptah, text on one B 2 registers: 1 4 scenes / 1 Ramesses IX offering image of Macet to Thoth / 2 With Sefkhet cabu writing, offering vase to Amon / 3 offering incense to Amon( ?) and goddess / 4 Led by a god and Re Harakhti to Amon and goddess
Basic, two lines of text, Ramses II and III, which are included in the bottom line.
On the side of the barque 18 performances
Porte Ramses IX
11 King offers offerings to Amun in the form of Min Ithphalique
9 King is led by Mentu to Amun, who holds up the Anch sign to him 10 King, with staff, offers Amon 'sechem' scepter and offerings
B.13 Behind (front) wall III pylon
5 King with white bread for Amun 6 King with vases of wine for Amun 7 King with ofers for Amun
In addition, 71 vertical lines of text, of which only the last part of each line is left, including the silver floor. Below the text three horizontal register text, top (small) of Ramses II, bottom two Ramses III
1 3 registers, 1 King offering incense to Ptah / 2 Standing before Monthu and goddess, / 3 Receiving !zeb sed from Amon and Ament. Right Cartouche decoration and King facing in with bouquet of Amon.
1 Amon sitting on a chair (destroyed 2 Udjat's eye
8 The Oeserhat barque with Wepwawet, obelisks and flagpoles, while the King stands on the back
double scene, King running with bull to Theban Triad, Doors: King offering wine, natron, and flowers, to Amon, with name of door at bottom.
H Five scenes; 1 Ramses II offering the image of Macet toAmon / 2 ointment vases for Isis, / 3 food for Amun / 4 incense and libation for Harsiesi / 5 sphinx ointment jar to Amun.
King censing and libating to [Theban Triad], remains of 71 columns of Amenophis III architectural text with a list of gifts to Amin. Wall of the south wing of the third pylon, here too the upper part has disappeared. On the far left representation of King Amenhotep III, in the left hand three incense burners, in the right hand a libation on two altars. The representation is partly hidden behind the later wall (B.14) of Ramses IX
3 King in rowing race for Amun, with oar and 'hepet'? sign 4 King with incense offering for Amon Min Ithyphalique
15 King gives bouquets to Amun 16 King with left goddess Must for seated Amun, possibly coronation ceremony (damaged)
2 5 scenes, 1 King offering incense and water to Ptah / 2 Standing before Onuris Shu / 3 Purified by Thoth and a god / 4 Before Amon / 5 Before Theban Triad
B.14. Wall / gate R IX
C 2 register: 1 3 scenes, 1 Destroyed / 2 Ramesses IX, with goddess, before god and goddess / 3 King offering shrine to Amon and goddess / 2 3 scenes r > l 1 King running with !zes vases to Amnn / 2 With Thoth, offering flowers to Amnn / 3 Offering libation to Theban Triad
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12 Corrected image of Amun receiving a sacrifice of vases
17 King offers vases of wine to Amun 18 King offers vases of wine to Amun, while he gets back Anch and the like
The shrine of the Oeserhat barque.
Behindbarthe
2 3 registers 1 King anointing a god, / 2 Standing before Re Harakhti, / 3 Seceiving !zeb sed from Amon and [goddess?]. Left Cartouche decoration and King facing in with bouquet of Amon.
At the bottom left three figures, kneeling in the 'henoe' position, A representation of the predynastic kings, the 'baoe' of Nechen (Hierakonpolis). Right kneeling six (seventh) sacrificial bearers. / In the shrine on the left is a representation of the King in the rowing hall for Amun, with offerings above and next to it. Right King with offerings for Amun / In the middle of the piece King with staff and 'sechem' scepter for Min / At the top, destroyed, the carrier for the god
F Ramesses IX before Chonsu
Pylon IV
The double door gate in the fourth pylon (Thutmose I, Thutmose IV, Shabaka). The single door is from Ineni, 32 mtr. high and 4.5 mtr. widely covered with copper and with a silver relief of the fertility god Min
set against the old portal of the fourth pylon by Thutmose IV and later remade / restored by Shabaka. Northern style: Four reliefs visible on the right, King offering to Amun left three columns of text
Southern wall of the fourth pylon, completely destroyed a Niche with granite base by Ramesses Ill.
South Wall
At the foot of the southern door jamb cartouches of Alexander the Great (with feathers)
North Wall
b (?) Doorway of J: Iarsiesi, sandstone, with figure of the king. ChOrInst statue. 7075 [left]. Cartridges (usurped), c / d Stelae of Ramses III, and of Ramses V, taken over by Ramses X, leaning against Pylon. e Block of Thutmose I. ChOrInst statue. 8413.
a / b / c / d / e / f door jambs, patterns of Ramses III, with cartridges of Ramses IV, c Recut by Ramses VI
b Niche with text by Ramses IV. See LECLANT, op. cit. p. 102 note 2.
a / b Place where the columns of the feast of Thutmose II began See >>>>>>> c Remnants of the outer wall of the party court of Thutmose II d Completely disappeared gate of Ramses III
Door10.5m.jambs
The 2nd register Testmose IV for Amon, renewal text Sabacon, dedication text Alexander I.
B.18 IN SITU
Thutmose I
B.17 Wall
Construction materials: sandstone, limestone Measurements: The pylon stood 23.50m tall with a total width of 62.6 m and a depth of
Block of Amenophis Ill, built in. Cartridges, LEGRAIN, op. cit. p. 2 [middle]. Stela, two registers. I, Man (lost name) who offered frankincense and lent to Amon, Amenopl) is I, and <Al) mosi Nefertere, 11, two men (one destroyed) with offerings before Thutmose III, probably Dyn. XX
The fourth pylon formed the west side of the Wadjet Hall and the east side of the "festival court" of Thutmose II. The enclosure wall connected to this pylon encircled the early 18th Dynasty temple of the time. A limestone casing covered the pylon's interior sandstone core.
a 2 columns text Seti II
d Three columns of text by Ramesses III
b Southern Doorjambs, bases, texts by Ramesses Ill, with remnants of scene above at (a). c Cartouches of Ramesses Ill. (d) Cartouches of Ramses VII.
B.19 Doorway. On the northeast corner of the third pylon. Destroyed between 1940 and 1950 removing blocks from J: Yatshepsut Bark shrine (supra, 64).
b Text Thutmose IV, with titles Seti II based c Text Sabacon
a Northern Door Jambs
B.15 B.19
Pylon IV served as the main entrance into the temple precinct until the mid 18th Dynasty. Rectangular niches were originally built into the east face of the stonework (which faced the interior of the Wadjet Hall) for the placement of small Osiride statues of Thutmose I. The sandstone enclosure wall replaced the temple's previous inner mud brick enclosure wall
Northern wall of the fourth pylon, completely destroyed a Osiris image (?) in niche.
B.16 IV pylon
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Construction materials: wood, rose granite Thutmose III
Thutmose III replaces / places with sandstone columns. (16 m. High, covered with electricity); Thutmose III also places a wall of stone between the osiride statues to support the new stone ceiling. Thutmose III puts a wall (pylon) around the obelisks of Hats to hide it Osiride statues Statues of Toetmosis I. Sandstone, against all walls.
Toetmosis I seated (broken), alabaster, and Toetmosis Ill, seated, with name rings on base, fragments, green breccia, found near next statue. Toetmosis Ill as Nile god, holding offering table with geese and sheaf with quails, lower part, granite, found at north east angle of masonry round Obelisks, in Cairo Mus. 42056.
Thutmose IV (damaged), granite, in Cairo Mus. Ent. 436n.
Thutmose began construction on a new hall between the fourth and fifth pylons. The p rocess proceeded in two phases: in the first phase, a line of rectangular niches was inserted in the east wall of the fourth pylon for the placement of seated statues of the king in the pose of the god Osiris.
Northern part of the osiride statues with red crown (total number of osiride statues 42) Southern part of the osiride statues with white crown Pillars Papyrus columns. Originally covered with gold leaf. Restored by Thutmose Ill.
In the reign of Thutmose III, a stone gateway was erected around the obelisks of Hatshepsut, leaving only their top portions visible. Her cartouches were not destroyed before their encasement, so this new construction is not interpreted as the beginning of the proscription against the queen. The king also replaced the hall’s wooden columns and roof with six monumental papyrus form stone columns in the north and eight in the south. In order to support his new roof, he added a stone lining to the interior of the hall. This lining covered over the niches in the fourth pylon, obscuring the seated statues of Thutmose I. The colossi of Thutmose I remained visible, now themselves recessed between the panels of the new stone lining.
Wadjet Hall
Thutmose I
The queen extensively renovated the hall of Thutmose I. She removed the stone columns of Thutmose I, replacing them with five gilded wood papyriform wadj columns, giving the hall its name: Wadjet. The northern and southern areas of the hall were roofed with a wooden ceiling supported by these columns. During her reign, Hatshepsut also erected a pair of rose granite obelisks in the hall. The central area of the hall must therefore have been left open to the air for the placement of her obelisks. These monoliths recorded her celebration of a jubilee festival in her 16th regnal year.
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Construction materials: sandstone, limestone Amenhotep II
Royal head, granite, Dyn. XVIII, found near Fifth Pylon, in Cairo Mus. Ent. 888o4.
The colonnade of the 'Ipet soet' Collonade of Thutmose I, continued by: Thutmose III, Amenhotep II, Thutmose IV Dim. 60/20 mtr. Purpose of this space, to set up the crowns of Beneden and Boven Eg At the time of Thutmose I; 2 times 3 columns and cedar roof
Finds (B)
Construction materials: sandstone Hatshepsut
Amenhotep II completed the south section of the new Wadjet Hall.
Fluted sandstone columns with inscriptions of the king were added to the four sides of the hall, forming a covered peristyle to protect the exposed statuary. Only the peristyle was roofed.
The Wadjet Hall was located between the fourth pylon and fifth pylon. Large, broken sandstone statues of Thutmose I still adorn the rectangular hall. According to Ramesside inscriptions, the Wadjet Hall was used for both the king's coronation ceremony and the celebration of the jubilee (heb sed) festival until it was superseded by the hypostyle hall in the 19th Dynasty. Measurements: The hall measures 75m wide by 14m deep.
In the second phase, a second group of larger Osiride statues (3.15m tall) were placed lining the wall between the niches. Traces of blue and black paint on these statues show that they were painted. The colossi on the north side wore the double crown while those to the south wore the white crown. The differing form of the statues paid homage to the religious beliefs of the union of the god Osiris with the solar god.
Double statue, Amon and Mut, smaller contemporary copy of last, found near Obelisk F, in Cairo Mus. 39213.
C.1.2 The 'intermediate pylon' in the colonnade, around the obelisks of Hatshepsut (Thutmose III) / a Remains of Amenophis 11 [smiting] Nubian prisoner to Amun, with text and southern name rings. / b Thutmose IV and two rows of priests with sacrificial list and endowment text. Basic, two lines later text. / c Twice three small chapels in the conversion of the obelisks of Hatshepsut (Thutmose III)
C.2.1 The northern obelisk in the columned hall (Hatshepsut) 25.58 meters high, 343 tons, the tip was covered with electrum / 4 sides: Pyramidion, / Queen kneeling before Amun; shafts, eight scenes, Hatshepsut or Toetmosis II sacrifice to Amun with a column with text of Queen in the middle Basic, eight lines of text from Queen.
C.2.8 Remains of [King] and northern name rings.
C.2.3 Wall 4th Pylooin
C.1.10 The gate in the Outer Wall leading to>. Door jambs, Thutmose Ill, usurped by Ramesses ll and re used by Ramesses VI
The relief on the east side of the sheath of the southern obelisk of Hatshepsut (Thutmose IV) Thutmose IV with report of his campaign to Naharina in Asia Behind the King a number of reliefs, priests with rites of 'the feast for the image' Bottom of two register text of Ramses IV, later edited by Ramses VI
C.1.6 The passage in the southern extension wall of the fifth pylon (Amenhotep II, Seti I) Jambs, Amenophis ll consecrating, usurped by Seti I. / c / d Representations of the statue of Amenophis on sled, with the name of Amenmesse usurped by Seti ll. / a / b and cartridges on (c), C.1.7 Wall, in the right corner the entrance to the stairs to get to the fourth pylon
C.2.4 (218) Amenophis Ill in l: zeb sed dress. CHORINST statue. 7073. See BARGUET, Temple, p. 108 [center].
C.1.9 The gate in the south wall (wall of Thutmose I) of the colonnade (25th dynasty.?)
C.1 a / b Two statues of Sekhmet, seated, lower part, granite. Epithet of Amenophis III (?) From one / c Seated statue alabaster / d Figure of Seti I. (b) Amon and Osiris (?), Dyn. XXV. / e / f / g Presumably original support columns for the middle architrave along the central path of the column hall (TII)
C.1.4 Location of the wooden statues of Thutmose III and Thutmose IV next to the entrance of the fifth pylon (Thutmose IV) Remains of Amenhotep II chapel against pylon, King presents rows of Asian prisoners, + Named Asians. Position of the wooden statues of Thutmose III and Thutmose IV next to the entrance of the fifth pylon (Thutmose IV)
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C.1.3 Wall 4th Pylooin
C.1.1 The disappeared southern OBELISK in the columned hall (Hatshepsut) Upper part with pyramidion, now west of the Temple of Re Iarakhti (infra, 221). Scenes and lyrics on Obelisk E, four top registers.
C.2.2 The 'intermediate pylon' in the colonnade, around the obelisks of Hatshepsut (Thutmose III) (At each end, two seated statues of the King) a [Amenophis II], with ka, run, with text and northern name rings below. Basis, Amon with test text about Imiseba / b (216) [Loc. KC. 132 3] Remains of priests and procession. CHxc. OR. Inst. statue. 8o42.
C.2.6 The eastern entrance to the colonnade on the north side of the fifth pylon (Thutmo se I) Door jambs, Thutmose I with formulas C.2.7 A support column for the middle architrave that is still visible on the spot against the north wall of the colonnade (Thutmose I) The north entrance of the colonnade (Thutmose I)
North Court
C.1.5 Remains of Thutmose III (lion) hitting enemies, and Asian name rings.
C.1.8 FIRE HOUSE, the room immediately south of and in line with the fourth pylon (TI?) 2 niches with an elevation
C.2 Northern Chamber a / b Presumably original support columns for the middle architrave along the central path of the column hall (Thutmose I)
C.2.5 The gate across to the north wing of the fifth pylon (Thutmose III) a Dedication text + names, titles Thutmose III, name door / b Fragments + name rings North Peoples
South Court
Pylon
The space is created between the fifth and sixth pylon because two connections have been made on both sides between pylon, in between a portal with walls on the sides
e / f Strains of Ill Thutmose built in, King, with ka, with Ramses IV. (g) and (h)
This building may have served as a location for the king or the bark of the god to rest while watching or participating in cult rituals. / Construction materials: stone / The chapel measured 15.5 x 9m.
Place for the initiation and accession to the throne small chapel, a "station of the king," Amenhotep II may have finished construction on a part of this corridor, a small shrine called the "station of the king." The building, as reconstructed by one scholar, would have consisted of a small rectangular chamber surrounded by a three sided portico of square columns. Low screen walls with three standing Osiride statues lined the exterior of each portico. The whole building was roofed and perched on a 1m high sandstone platform. The remains of the building found at Karnak show it was inscribed by Amenhotep II, suggesting he constructed it himself (possibly on the location of an earlier building) or decorated the previously existing shrine.
Court Between Pylon V-VI
[1st edition. 21, 22; Loc. KC. 46, 139]
C.4 Coronation of the King,
V C.3
Court south
Thutmose III
e Column with dedication text of Toetmosis I, built round by Toetmosis Ill.
c The gate in the southern back wall of the Colonnade of Thutmose I (Thutmose III)
C.6.1
The fifth pylon and its court connected to the new stone enclosure wall surrounding the temple. Like the fourth pylon, rectan gular niches were originally built into the east face of the stonework for the placement of small Osiride statues of Thutmose I. Standing sandstone statues of Thutmose I were placed between each niche. These measured 3.15m tall. Sixteen fluted sandstone columns created a covered port ico on the court's north, west and south sides. / Construction materials: sandstone, limestone and red granite
d Sandstone blocks of the chapel of Amenophis II (formerly against the south wing of Pylon, before C.1.4 [King] presented Asian prisoners with text about Retenu and name rings below.
Inside door jambs, bottom of the text with the name of the door of the Thutmose Ill.
a Wall Pylon V
Thutmose III added a series of sandstone partition walls and a sandstone and red granite gate in the central section of the court of the fifth pylon. The partitions sectioned the court off into main corridor flanked by two pillared courts on the north and south. This addition, along with the king’s roofed connecting walls between Pylon VI and the "palace of Ma'at" and the gateway around the Hatshepsut obelisks in the Wadjet hall, created a narrow corridor from the "festival court" to the temple's sanctuary.
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a Access Inner lintel, double scene, Seti 11, kneeling, receiving life from Amun. Door Jambs Thutmose III dedication with the name of the door at the base.
The portal could be closed with a double door a / b Portal interior with ruined depiction of Tutmose III entering the temple
Osiriden
c Ramesses II receiving life from Amon.
d Lower part, remnants of supply scene. Basic, text from Seti II with text from Ramses III below. C.6 Avant Porte Thutmose III
Located on the main, east/west temple axis, Pylon 5 formed the east wall of the Wadjet hall. The pylon led to a large, open court with a columned portico. The pylon was connected on its north and south extension walls to the temple's new enclosure wall. A limestone casing covered the pylon's interior sandstone core on the upper sections of the pylon, replaced at the base with a casing of red Thegranite.base of the pylon measured approximately 36.4m by 7.7m. The towers rose 19m.
a Statue de Thoutmosis III agenouillé présentant une table d’offrandes (XVIIIth dynasty, Thoutmosis III) b Lintel (destroyed by flood in 1865) and poles, not described c Basis, name of the door of Thutmose HI.
C.5 (Toetmosis I)
d Block, Ramessesalabaster,III,preceded by the small figure of Queen Ahmosi Nefertere, offers statue of Maat to Amun.
Construction materials: sandstone and red granite Thutmose I, restored by Seti I (?).
Thutmose I
b The gate in the southern extension wall of the sixth pylon (Seti II)
b Door posts as at C.6.3 c with Monthu instead of Atum The relief on the southern part, part of the coronation ritual, 2 registers left / Above left: Tutmose offers two loaves (?) To Min / Above right: Thutmose III offers wine to Amun / Below left: King with (?) / Below right: Montoe leads the white crowned King before Amun, / At the bottom three lines: renewal text Seti I.
The relief on the northern part, part of the coronation ritual, 2 registers left 1 a Wall Pylon V
DoorGate jambs depicted on both sides King Upper sill of the gate relief with 2 mirrored scenes. Amun Receives Sacrifices From (Thutmose III) Court North
Two columns with dedication text of Thutmose III, with groove in between, and speech by Amtln b The gate: On the right door jamb there is another picture of the King
Two columns with dedication text of Thutmose III, with groove in between, and speech by Amtln b (top disappeared, only feet visible)
c Door frame, granite. Two registers: 1 the offering of the king to Amonv 2 King is led by Atum to Amun, with renewal text from Seti I. (?) King with red crown for Toem by Heliopolisdt for (?) e.g. cleaning (for 4th pylon mounting the crowns (hypostyle) (?) troning or embrace by the Neters (throne room)
a Entrance. [Frisian text] and inner lintel (right half destroyed), double scenes, Thutmose III embraced by Amun received the life of Amun. Door jambs, ordained king with the name of the door underneath. b NORTH / WEST Pylon VI Victory of Megiddo, speech by the King, with ka, offerings with a long offering list to c[Amun].Stela. A king Ramesside and libers to Amenophis I.
The small sixth pylon was located between the court of pylon five and the "palace of Ma'at." The sandstone pylon's gate was made of granite and covered in electrum. Relief decoration depicted Thutmose III adoring the god Amun Ra. The court was lined on its north, west, and southern edges with a portico of twelve closed papyrus form columns, six to the north and six to the south. Small chapels extended from the northern and southern sections of this court towards the east.
Thutmose III, after his year 42, also added a series of roofed connecting walls between Pylon VI and the "palace of Ma'at," sectioning off the northern and southern porticoes. This addition, along with the king's partition walls and gate in the court of the fifth pylon and the gateway around the Hatshepsut obelisks in the Wadjet hall, created a narrow corridor from the "festival court” to the temple's sanctuary. The black granite doorway to the southern portico was removed from the west wall of the "red cha pel" of Hatshepsut. When the chapel was disassembled by Thutmose III, he reused the two main doorways in his renovations of the central part of the temple. The other was placed inside the "palace of Ma'at" at the entrance to the northern suite of rooms.
Construction materials: sandstone
The northern space next to the sixth pylon (Thutmose III) a SEE ALSO C.6.4 a
Top sill of the gate (damaged) relief with 2 mirrored scenes. Amun Receives Sacrifices (?) From (Thutmose III)
c Relief on the wall, top of which only feet can be seen. Depiction of conquering the enemies, according to the inscription the enemies from upper Retenoe (meggido and surroundings)
Bottom five registers with name rings of conquered cities from Asia
C.6.2
Door pillar 6th Pylon: lower register King with destroyed god (Amon?), The King performs the rite of 'worshiping the god four times' d Statue sitting on Amenophis. TzARA and SVED, Egypt face to face, pl. we p. 74 (called Thutmose III); CHAMPDOR, The Egypt of the Kings, ill. P. 72 [right]; LUBICZ, 124 [right]; MARBURG INST. Photos. 86676, 15496o I, 156448, 15787o FOUND IT Torso, Thutmose IV, granite, found near last, now in Cairo Mus. See id. ib. p. 81 [top].
C.7 The northern colonnade behind the fifth pylon (Thutmose I) PILLARS / OSIRIDS
C.6.4 The southern space next to the sixth pylon (Thutmose III) a SEE ALSO C.6.3 a
Lower part of the scene, Thutmose III hitting prisoner with five rows of southern name rings below. MARIETTE, Travel, pl. 45 · Name rings. Bottom five registers with name rings of conquered cities c
Pylon VI C.8
Thutmose III
Thutmose III added the sixth pylon, making a new entranceway to the sanctuary of the temple. The northern and southern edges of the court were originally occupied by limestone chapels of Amenhotep I. Thutmose III replaced all of Amenhotep I's limestone chapels with sandstone ones. They were intended to hold statues of the king which were to receive offerings. Interior relief scenes depict both Thutmose III and the now deified Amenhotep I.
C.6.3
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FOUND: Scribe statue, Haremhab, later King, lower part, sandstone, temp. TutcankhAmon, found in Passage XXIV, now in Cairo Mus. 42129
(Tutmosis III) without mast slots for details C.6.3 / 4 Block of lintel, worshiping Thutmose III at the 9th hour of the day, granite, in front of the north wing. Doorposts, three registers, partially destroyed. m, King with formula for Amun, and dedication text at the base. a / b Door style 6th Pylon: lower register King with destroyed god (Amon?), the King performs the rite of 'worshiping the god four times' register above that King with god
d Block, seven column text, built in upside down.
Blocks with the end of twelve columns of text, built below, upside down.
D Two seated statues, Thutmose III in heb sed clothing, granite, in situ, the other (fragmentary), schist, in Cairo Mus. 42098
10 'Youth text of Thutmose III'
3 Passageway, two registers 1 Offering the king to Amun, I, flowers, 2Image of Macet.
This youth text mentions the construction of the 'Netjery Menou' (Open Air Museum)
11 Festival calendar, Thutmose Ill
A D Eastern Walls: Amenophis I seated with offerings and a ritual scene below
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Right part, two registers, 1Seti II offering four boxes of colored cloth to Amoen with Chonsu 2 Offer lettuce to Amun. Base, cartridges of Ramses IV.
Originally open court of Thutmose III, later built up Found in the ground image of black granite 1.10 mtr. high (M. Cairo 36,336). Thutmose IV with Queen Tiâa sitting. TIV with ank on lap in right hand, left hand around queen. (Queen mirrored with left arm on her lap)
4 Wall Left Part, Thutmose III (?) Led by Monthu (?) To Amun
Court South Pylon VI
(KARNAK Project Inventaire_des_monuments_objets_scenes_e (open) .pdf)
B / D / E West Walls: 2 Registers, Sacrifices, and Priests Before Thutmose Ill, with List of Offers
1 Passage; door jamb, 2 columns text Seti II
B / C Exterior door jambs, 2 columns TIII
The small pylon measured 15.7m long, 4.2m wide, and rose only 12.50m high. The chapels of Thutmose III were 3.1m high, 2.6m wide and 3.65m deep.
e / f Lintel, cartridges and remains of door jambs.
8 False door of Thutmose III, with dedication text about electrum and lapis lazuli on poles.
5 Wall, two registers, 1 Seti II drives four calves to Theban Triad, 2 Offering incense and libations to Amun and Ament. Base, cartridges of Ramses IV.
c Remains of a large scene, King led by a god, and patron of Seti II at the bottom, with Seti II offering to Theban Triad.
FOUND IN GROUND: Double statue, seated, Thutmose IV and mother, Queen Tica, granite, Cairo Mus. 42080
7 Block with two scenes, from Bark shrine of Thutmose III set up here
9 Thutmose Ill devotion treasure of Amun.
c Two blocks with vertical text and remains of king for a god.
2 Passage, granite (reused blocks from eastern doorway of Bark shrine or Hatshepsut Lintel, double scene, left half, Thutmose III depicts Macet as a god, and [king] for Mut, Right half, offer ointment to [a god], and offer to Amun. Left style, name of the door. Judge style, remnants of devotion text from Thutmose III, with door name in the text of Seti II above.
6 Wall, Base, kneeling Nile gods and cartouches of Ramses IV
C.9
Thutmose III sitting with ka, and Nile gods binding sma symbol between two lions based on throne, and forty nine columns of autobiographical text for the king
12 As in (10), with Sesostris I in place of Thutmose Ill, and autobiographical text destroyed.
A to K Chapelle des Ancêtres (?)
Thutmose Ill, replacement chapels of Amenophis I.
E Statue of Ptah, headless, granite, against back wall
1 Doorpost / Lintel, double scene (right half destroyed), King walks to Amun with Hes vase. / Name of the door of the Thutmose III of the destroyed doorpost,
G H PM 246 7 Recycled blocks from Annals, probably from here. ChOrInst photos. 8517 18
3 Door station: Text by [Amon] Kamutf, and underneath a recycled block (upside down) from a scene with Nile gods and Heb sed texts.
7/8 Heraldic Pillars of Upper and Lower Egypt, granite TIII
f The bottom part of the scene, Seti 1 {?), with Great Ennead, ending with goddess Lnyt (text superimposed on earlier scene), kneels before Amun, Mut, Ament (?) And Chonsu. At the right end, three small registers, each with a kneeling foreigner (Libyan (?), Nubian, Syrian
A Side walls, priests and offerings for king. / wall, CHORINST photo. 8or2.
E 17 of Hatshepsut.
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A B C D E Annals of Thutmose III on all walls with a line of royal titles and two lines of dedication text to Amun above, continued on the north wall of this room SEE > C.13 Two scenes, the king receiving the life of Amun, and of Mut, with renewal texts from Haremheb and Annals, years 29 42 (upper part of columns 3 32, most of 33 47, and part of the text above , are in Louvre, C. 51), based on the renewal text of Seti II .... Part still in situ: columns 1 35, MARIE'ITE, Karnak, pi. 13; ChOrInst photos. 6oo6 [right], 8512 16, 8546, 8734, 8746; with unpublished fragment in Brit. Mus. x68
Inside sides: Two columns with text.
i Thutmose III, with the great Ennead seated behind him, offering the deer vases to Amun and goddess.
k Projections with Remnants of Dedication Text from Thutmose Ill. Cartouche and title of Amun l Projections with remnants of devotion text from Thutmose Ill. Cartouche and title of Amon
NORTH / W Two remaining registers 1 King embraced by Hathor 2 by Amon / N / Z Papyrus emblems. / O Three registers: 1 King embraced by Mut 2 and 3 by Amun. / SOUTH W As with North (W), with Ament instead of Hathor / N / Z Lily logos.
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D Left wall, similar scene.
On the back of Amonit a column of text with the name of Toet, overwritten by horemheb
g Two scenes 1 Taharqa devoting victims (largely destroyed) 2 making offerings to Amun. Replaced blocks from Osorkon 11 (eight columns) and Sesonchis I (some on the ground).
9 Amenophis II, sitting. Prince Antefca, squatting, granite, indicating his mother Iku by his descendant, Sesostris I, found in x 899 under pavementin Cairo Mus. 42005 (head, found later, probably belonging to ent. 33767).
1 2 Two colossi, Amon and Ament (head found later), quartzite, temp. TutcankhAmon (appropriated by Harermheb)
g Two registers: 1 Presenting Tutmosis Ill] victims to a god / offer temple to Min.
2 Firebox (?) Sixfold sculpture group (Thutmose III) / a Remains of Taharqa representing the image of Maat / b Remains of scenes (starting on the south return wall), king with ka, and king bringing cows (with calf) to Amon, with Nile god, nominal goddesses of Lower Egypt and personifications of seasons, at the base. / c Thetosis Ill erecting shnt before Min. CHORINST photo. 6947.
b Above the door, three scenes, Thutmose Ill, renewed by Philip Arrhidaeus, offering to Amun / 1 bread / 2 milk / 3 wine / c Upper path, double scene (left half destroyed), king offers image of Macet to Amun / d Four registers 1 Remains of bull and baboon 2 Two hawks on shrines, m, priestesses with sistra and cartouche of Thutmose Ill 3 Similar scene; for blocking with part of Annals, from Bark shrine or Thutmose Ill, reused by Ramses 4 ?
Court North Pylon VI
F G Side walls, offering list, priests and offerings, before Thutmose Ill.
B Incense storage. walls and side walls, presentation of oils, back wall, double scene (destroyed on the right, except Amon), King brought incense and frankincense trees to Amun with text regarding Point. / 2. Left scene on back wall
5/6 Two pillars, sandstone, originally covered in gold, with similar scenes on each. / (W) King worships a god, with Heb sed text below, and two Nile gods at the base / (N) receiving life from a god / (O) worshiping a god, with sacrificers at the base, (Z) enter?
ROOMS North side: On all doorposts and on lintels of chapels: B and H, texts by Thutmose Ill
F PM 245 King receives the life of Amon and Annals, thirty thirty columns of text of feasts and offerings, based on the renewal text of Seti II.
d e Two registers A Remnants of scene, Thutmose III, with two swamp deities (second webbed Kheded) in canoe in the papyrus swamp. / B Two scenes 1 Thutmose III running with bird and staves, to Hathor with menat, preceded by Il) y with sistrum, [doorway] 2 two Nile gods. / (?) Scene above upper threshold: Little creature standing behind a King on a papyrus boat, feet and legs constructed from hundreds of duck heads, possibly related to the Nile god Hapi
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Vestibule Tutmosis III
e Remains of two registers, Philip Arrhidaeus offering Amun: 1 lettuce / 2 papyrus bouquets, with renewal text f Projections with remnants of devotion text by Tutmosis Ill. Cartouche and title of Amun
j Two registers 1 Seti II, offering kneeling bouquets to Ament and Amon 2 Standing in front of Amon.
C Side walls. Priests with offerings and list for King.
4 Door station :a Two registers 1 Thutmose Ill (rest destroyed) 2 Thutmose III, with ka, devotion sacrifices.
Originally 6 m high (red sandstone (sonorous), behind the feather head an inscription with the Horus name of Tutankh amun usurped by StatueHoremheb.ofAmonit, found under the pedestal founding stone in the name of Hatshepsut
Images of the god Amun Ra that formed part of the shrine's original decoration were removed during the Amarna period. The relief scenes show signs of later repairs during the reign of Seti I. The shrine may have been damaged again during the Assyrian or Persian conquests of Egypt.
The exterior north face of which is occupied by an immense tableau representing Amun Min Kamutef, sheathed in white. He is standing on a bulwark set on an altar, which is in turn supported by a staircase. Behind the statue is a large rectangle of red cloth, stretched between two falcon headed stakes and surmounted by two words: divine shadow. The ?Icier is preceded by twelve insignia, of which two are carrying his name: the bull ka and the vulture Mut perched on the (f) viper. This tableau is evocative of one of the most ancient religious feasts, the emergence of Min, which is referred to from the very first dynasties. b Sanctuary
Very little is known about the Thutmose III bark shrine. A few inscribed fragments from its north wall were found at Karnak during excavations around the area of the later Philip Arrhidaeus shrine.
Construction materials: rose granite C.12.1
From the reign of Hatshepsut, Karnak's central bark shrine was located within the Palace of Ma'at in the core of the Amun temple. Today, only the two room shrine built by Philip Arrhidaeus remains in situ.
Consecration of the offerings
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Measurements: Philip Arrhidaeus's two room shrine was 6.34m wide, 17.83m deep, and 6.85m high. Thutmose III's two room shrine was 6.37m wide and 14.08m deep.
Thutmose III
Probably not actually build by him but on his behalf by Ptolemy I, is formed from two long chambers that correspond externally to two buildings of different heights placed end to end. The western half is taller than the eastern portion. In an inscription on his bark shrine at Karnak, which was probably not actually build by him but on his behalf by Ptolemy I, is formed from two long chambers that correspond externally to two buildings of different heights placed end to end. The western half is taller than the eastern portion. Philip Arrhidaeus claims he made a faithful copy of the Thutmose III shrine his replaced. The Macedonian shrine was cut from a single piece of rose granite, decorated on the interior with a painted ceiling of red, white and blue stars. The south exterior wall depicted the sacred bark on its processional routes both leaving and returning to the temple.
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Thutmose III removed the original shrine within the Palace of Ma'at, constructed by Hatshepsut, after the death of the queen. See the webpage for the Red Chapel for more information on this shrine. Some time around year 46 of his reign, the king replaced the "red chapel" with a similarly shaped shrine of his own.
Construction materials: red gray granite
Chapelle de Kamoutef
C.12.2 Outer lintel. Double scenes, Philip runs to Amun and knelt before [a god] on each half a/b Door stations, three registers, 1 King with statue of Ma <et to Amun 2 censoring and committing to Amun, 3 devotion (no divinity) / c Offer scenes. / d Door name
Exterior aNorthVestibule
Bark Chapel Philippus Arrhidaeus C.12
To the east, which is the lowest part of the sanctuary, the consecration of the offerings by the king with the sekhem scepter , repeated four times, can be found on the outside north wall. The snake headed vulture overshadowing the king is wadjet, the guardian spirit of the North.
a Jamb, bottom register, King standing / b Door station, two registers 1 King, with a [goddess], embraced by a god 2 King standing. / c/d King embraced by Amun (destroyed at d). Bases, Nile gods.
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Philip Arrhidaeus
The bark shrine is formed from two long chambers that correspond externally to two buildings of different heights placed end to end. The western half is the highest.
g Four registers (scene I destroyed). 1 Nine scenes, Philip for Amun, with sacrificial list in 7 / 2 Five scenes 1 King, with Khnum and Horus from Elephantine, just drags 2 offering flowers to Amun 3 run with vases to Amun 4 with offers 5 with offerings before Amon with I: Jatl) / 3 Nine scenes, King for Amun (with Chonsu in 8) / 4 Nine scenes, King for Amun (with Mut in 8) Blocks from 11 IV, just with birds in 2 / King offers two bags of eyeshadow to Amon with King beyond in 3 Text and arms of Amon and King in 4 in Boston Mus. 75.11
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1 Four scenes 1 King purified by Thoth and Horus 2 crowned by Thoth and Horus 3 led by Atum and Monthu to Thoth, 4 kneeling, crowned by Amun, with Ament nursing child behind her / 2 Valley Festival, four barcs, first and third on stilts (?), Second and fourth carried by priests and preceded by king / 3 Valley Festival, three scenes 1 Barque of Amun dragged by barque with statue of king 2 King censing for barque worn by priests 3 libation for barque on supports. / 4 [Foundation scenes]. Remaining scene, King hacking and text at the bottom.
The jutting cornerstone that forms the pedestal on which the naos rests is a block of reused granite on which the Horus name of Tuthmosis II is carved. This reuse is strange; the stone is carved in such a way, that the framing of the name is sloped with respect to the pedestal's horizontal and climbs toward the sanctuary. This recalls two observations made by Champollion: First, inside the sanctuary: Behind the king, and between him and the corner of the doorway [are] five columns of hieroglyphs that contain the dedica tion of the sanctuary as a restoration of that of Tuthmosis III; Philip Arrhidaeus indeed said that he reconstructed the sanctuary of Tuthmosis III, which was on the verge of falling into ruin. Second, the granite sanctuary terrace is obviously composed of blocks that come from Tuthmosis III's original sanctuary. One of these blocks still. provides a great image, full length and of very fine workman_ ship, of the generating Amun, with remnants of an inscription containing the list of the gifts given to the god by the king, in gold and various other metals.
South
The ceiling of this chamber, painted blue, is constellated with gold stars. The walls are divided into four registers, on which the gestures for the "Daily Divine Worship" to Amun under his two different forms are represented in alternation. The "hunt with the net" can be recognized on the third register of the south wall near the entrance.
These immense granite blocks probably come from obelisks that were broken, then carved into slabs. These reused blocks depicted in plate 156 come from the upper part of an obelisk of Tuthmosis II. The western side of the building is divided into four registers, but the bot tom rimer fermenting the scenes of foundation is almost completely distroyed.
Interior Vestibule
The walls are composed of three immense super imposed blocks, but where in the north the joint separates the two upper registers from the two lower ones exactly, on the south it cuts through all the figures on the third register at the level of their sex organs.
f Four registers, ten small scenes in each, Philip for Amon. LUBICZ 155
The highest part of the building corresponds to the interior western chamber. It is divided into four registers topped by a torus and a cornice. The lowest part contains but one register, on which are drawn the offering of four calves (black, red, white, and spotted) and the race of the "great stride" by the king wearing the white crown carrying the oar and the rudder. The three registers on the left are very interest ing. Above can be found the entirety of the constituent scenes, which from left to right are: The purification of the king by Thoth and Horus, who spread in a dome around him the water poured from the two vessels. 'Your purification is my purification and reciprocally' is the formula that is repeated four times. Thoth and Horus crowning the king, for it is only after he has been crowned that he can fulfill his sacred office. Received by Thoth, t back and looks in the same direction, thus identify ing himself with the neter. He receives life and the confirmation of his royalty; then, under the features of a "child with curly locks," he receives the divine milk. On the middle register the sacred barque is leaving the sanctuary; borne on the shoulders of priests, then it is deposited in a chapel that marks One of the stations of the procession. They continue their march before reaching the second repository. The return of the sacred barque is described on the bottom register, first by water, towed by the king himself standing in a skiff, then borne on the priests, shoulders as the barque is purified with incense by the king. The last scene describes the quadruple purification, with the white vessels, of the sacred barque returned to its sanctuary. The interesting assembly of these blocks, the junction between the highest and lowest sections, and the cutting of the figura tions by the joints should be noted. For example, the entire royal ascent toward the naos is drawn on a single block, without any cut, but by virtue of the cutting of the lower scenes that depict the naos on the barques, the royal ascent rests not on the earth but on the sky of these tableaux.
c Four scenes K for Amun 1 driving 4 calves 2 (top) walk with (bite) and oar 3 dedication (shnt) 4 offering incense.
d Four registers.
e Broken block (removed in 1835), with part of two lower registers on one side 1 [barque] carried by priests 2 King Boswellia, in Boston Mus. 7SII
Sanctuaire
1 Four scenes 1 King seated and offer 2 King kneeling with two pots 3 offers below [bark] 4 King embraced by Amun
2 Three scenes 1 King to Amun 2 offering Temple (?) To Amun 3 Purify Amon. Base, kneeling Nile gods.
j Two registers.
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Vestibule, Paroi nord, 5e registre
On the southern exterior is a relief of Amon Min. At the top right is the grid of the relief makers At the entrance of the chapel on the left door frame. At the bottom you can see small holes that served to fix (precious) metal plates
h Door station. King leaves Sanctuary and is hugged by Mut i Philip's Rebuilding Text Concerning Barkshrine of Thutmose Ill (completed on ceiling of Room IX, above), Two registers. 1 Four scenes 1 King sacrifices 2 King kneeling with pots 3 sacrifice list and bark 4 King embraced by Amun / 2 Remnants of scenes, king to Amun. Base, kneeling Nile gods.
C.13.4 Block of Bark shrine or Thutmose III
The "palace of Ma'at" served as the central sanctuary of Karnak. It was located within the Thutmoside core of the temple and protected the successive central bark shrines of Hatshepsut, Thutmose III, and Philip Arrhideaus. The rectangular structure was comprised of a series of small rooms with a large central hall for the placement of the central bark. The walls of the palace were covered with carved and brightly painted relief scenes of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III.
Construction materials: sandstone, black granite
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1 Annalen, Toetmosis III
C.13.1 Annals Start >> Two registers. (282)
4th Year 25 28 no trace of it found
10 16 10th Year 35 Mitanni Rebellion
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Outer Passage Chapel Arhidaeus
C.13.2 Annals PM 281
Hatshepsut erected her palace of Ma'at as part of a series of major renovations to the Amun temple during her reign. The queen tore down a number of structures of Amenhotep I on this location, moving his calcite bark shrine as well. The queen may have dismantled a portico of Osiris statues from the Middle Kingdom temple of Senusret I (possibly located just east of the palace of Ma'at) to connect her new sanctuary to the ancient cult center.
Continuation of year 23 with loot list, years 40 and 24
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C.13.5 Granite block, [Thutmosis Ill] for Amon with frame at the bottom, from his Bark shrine
Measurements: The palace of Ma'at measures approximately 40m across by 20m deep.
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11 Year 42 Kadesh / Mitanni Uprising
5th Year 29
Two registers (281) 1 Six rows, women with sistra / 2 Annals, columns 68 82, continuation of year 23 C.13.3 Annals PM 280
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The palace of Ma'at functioned for storage of cult equipment as well as providing an offering place for the divine Constructioncult. materials: sandstone
Thutmose III (late in his sole reign) ordered the desecration of the images of Hatshepsut within the p alace. Thutmose III covered a number of her panels of decoration with fresh sandstone blocks, inscribing them with his "Annals," a list of goods that he donated to the Temple of Amun Ra. The "Annals" also depict the obelisks he erected before the seventh pylon. As part of the reworking of the palace, the king dismantled the "red chapel" of Hatshepsut and reused one of its black granite doorways in the entrance to the northern suite of rooms. He replaced the "red chapel" with a granite bark shrine of his own (See the webpage Central Bark Shrine for more information on this structure). During this process he designed a new entrance portico for the palace of Ma'at.
At some point, Hatshepsut added a beautiful red quartzite bark shrine, her "red chapel," to the center of the palace of Ma'at. The addition of this large shrine necessitated the removal of a number of interior walls of the palace.
6 7 6th Year 30 With boats via port Simira, capture of Kadesh 7th Year 30 8 Year 33 Via the Euphrates Mitanni
Palace of Ma'at
1 Year 22 25th day of the 4th month = 2nd season (growing time "peret") / Palestinian Syrian Tribes / Gaza Year 23 1st month of the third season Further along the coast Jehem (Yemma) Battle of Megiddo / Siege & Booty
C.13 Outer walls 1 t/m 6
1 Thutmose III raises his scepter to present the gifts offered to the god Amun. The king is said there ': "Aimé of Amun Re in the great dwelling of Ma'at". In front of him, 2 poles and 2 obelisks, then ten rows of treasures to Amon / 2 Annals, columns 1 67, years 22 3 and text on the right.
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This wall was erected by Thutmose III to hide rooms of Queen Hatshepsut. It includes a large scene of offerings with Amon on the right and Thutmose III on the left. The king can be seen on the page associated with it with the 2 large obelisks that he offers to the god as well as a considerable amount of offerings. The offerings, which form the tribute of peoples foreign to Egypt, consist of vases, tables, caskets, necklaces, scepters, censers, in silver, gold, electrum, copper, alabaster, turquoise and lapis lazuli; obelisks and masts appear there.
G H PM 246 7 Recycled blocks from Annals, probably from here. ChOrInst photos. 8517 18
2 Annalen, Toetmosis III
Two scenes, the king receiving the life of Amun, and of Mut, with renewal texts from Haremheb and Annals, years 29 42 (upper part of columns 3 32, most of 33 47, and part of the text above , are in Louvre, C. 51), based on the renewal text of Seti II .... Part still in situ: columns 1 35, with unpublished fragment in Brit. Mus. x68: C 51 / Main number: N 205 / N° anc. coll. : Salt No. 3834 (excerpts from campaigns 5 to 10) coronation name birth name horus name
Columns 10 to 22 >>: In summary, the king said that his enemies had plundered this land and had rebelled against him. Then on the date of the "" Year of reign 23, 4th month of Chemou, day 4 ", the king is in Gaza from where he leaves the next day. On the 16th day of the same month, he holds council in the city of Yaham. He declares that his vile enemy of Qadesh entered Meggido with other chiefs whom he had rallied to him and in particular from distant lands
Annals of Thutmose III, probably 26 8 years, starting on destroyed wall at the end of the west, with remnants of an earlier scene (previously hidden by the Annals), twelve prophets with sacrifices for the Festival of Amun, preceded by four priests and sacrifices ....
Columns 23 to 38>> : ... with their armies. The king says his enemy has declared that he is waiting for him in Meggido and seeks the advice of his advisers. They worry about the narrowness of the path to take and the number of enemies. They propose 2 other paths which would allow the army to advance as well as possible while the other is so narrow that the army is very stretched.
Annals of Thutmose III on all walls with a line of royal titles and two lines of dedication text to Amun above, continued on the north wall of this room SEE > C.13
Textes
Found in 2nd Pylon, set up here
Translation: "Her majesty ordered to be recorded, on a stone wall in the temple which she had restored...the triumphs granted her by her father Amun...and the spoils she brought back from them. And so was done."
Columns from 39 to 62 >> : But the king announces that "as true as Re lives" for him, he will pass by this narrow path with those who will want to follow him. His advisers respectfully tell the King that the servants must follow their master. Then the king announces that he will come out at the head of his army. We made sure that each man learned his marching order. Year of the reign 23, first month of Chemou, day 19, the king left for the north at the head of his army organized in many companies.
C.10 A B C D E F G H
F PM 245 King receives the life of Amon and Annals, thirty thirty columns of text of feasts and offerings, based on the renewal text of Seti II. Chic. Or. INST photos. 8791
A B C D E
C.13.6 Annals PM 284
This text >> was written under the scene of offerings. The first 2 columns on the right are a brief introduction, reduced to a few hieroglyphics. Then there are the first 9 columns of the actual text. The first 2 list the titles of the king? Then this one indicates that he ordered to write this text to commemorate his victories, the booty and the products of all the foreign countries. The date comes: "Year of reign 22, 4th month of Peret, day 25". The king says he passed the fortress of Tajoui in order to subdue the enemies of Egypt.
Below this scene, an inscription runs at the bottom of the wall: this text recounts the events of the king's reign between the years 23 and 42. Hence the name "Annals" given to this text. A translation of these Annals is given in the work by Michel Dessoudeix cited below.
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>> This door was originally installed on the Red Chapel of Hatshepsut. It was moved by Thutmose III to open the wall which supports the writings of the annals. It is located between columns 67 and 68 of the text.
North Chapels Hatshepsut C.14
On the lintel, under Behedet's outstretched wings, were engraved the names of King of Upper and Lower Egypt and the name of Son of Re. On the uprights, the king is facing Amon.
Second register Three scenes: 1 Queen, purified by Thoth and Horus / 2 Queen with ftes vases to Amon / 3 [Queen], with ka, with vases around Amun.
XI a Doorway, granite, from Bark Shrine of Hatshepsut, reused here. / Outer lintel, royal titles, doorposts, king embraced by Amun with the name of the door of Thutmose Ill. b/c Similar scenes, Thutmose III with table with offerings. Cartouches of Thutmose 11 and Ill in west side rooms, d Right jamb, titles of Thutmose II.
F First register, Three scenes 1 Queen led by Atum (?) And Monthu to Amun / 2 Queen, with ka, who throw victims to Amun 3 [Queen] with offerings before Amun
The queen offers 2 vases of wine (?) To Amon. The queen is hammered as in the other scenes, but her cartridge is still visible.
The wall opposite the baptismal wall is obviously not the original one. It is a wall from another of the halls of Hatshepsut where the image of the queen has been carefully erased and her cartridges replaced by those of Thutmose III (right scene) or Thumosis II (left scene). On the right, a vague silhouette can still
G First stops, Three scenes 1/2 Queen, changed to Thutmose II and III, for Amun 3 Queen with offer list and offerings before Amun.
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Holding 2 vases, the queen performs a ritual race in front of Amon Min.
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be seen, but on the left the wall is smooth. It is not known what offerings were presented to Amon and Amon Min.
Second register Five scenes. Queen, turned into Thutmose II and Ill, for Amun. This wall is part of what is called 'The Alcoves of Hatshepsut'. It was previously hidden by the wall of the Annals of Thutmose III when the latter modified the northern chambers around the sanctuary of the boat. It was moved by Legrain so that the scenes showing the queen, though hammered, could be seen. For the wall opposite, on the contrary, the queen had been completely removed from the different scenes. This wall was part of a set of 2 rooms, separated by a wall of which there is still a trace. On the right, the most famous scene known as the Baptism of Hatshepsut is engraved. On the left side, different scenes with the queen and Amon. The images of the queen were copiously hammered as well as her cartridges. This scene, incorrectly often called "baptism", represents the purification of Queen Hatshepsut before she entered the temple. An identical scene exists in the vestibule of the Red Chapel. The queen is purified by Thoth and Horus who pour the purifying liquid to her, represented by ankh signs, life. The image of the queen has been hammered, as well as her cartridges leaving only the name of Amun.
The queen offers 4 choice coins for Amon Re., Calves, ox thighs, birds and poultry.
The queen (almost disappeared) stands in front of a table of offerings which she dedicates to Amun (left). The cartouche is that of Thumosis II. A large list enumerates the offerings (to be compared with the list of the Red Chapel in the sanctuary, seat 5 scene 6).
Palace Ma'at
The scene on the left is not complete. The cartouche is that of Thumosis II on the right and Thutmosis III on the left. The patterns replacing the queen are barely traced.
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Lower register, [Queen with ha] libating to the Great Ennead., ChOrInst photo. 8396.
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a Four scenes 1 4, Hatshepsut, adapted by Thutmose III, purifying image of Amun with natron b Four scenes, Hatshepsut for Amun1 destroyed 2 offering collar 3 sprinkles of sand 4 offering incense.
a Thutmose III dedicates treasure to Amun, speech to Amun
a Hatshepsut, changed to Thutmose II for Amun with thanks for buildings b Replace block with figure of Thutmose III
3.1 Outer lintel, right part (replaced), royal titles
6.3 Altar (?) Base, Thutmose III, granite. CAIRO,
Partly destroyed
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1 narrow passage
Left door frame, text by Thutmose. III with name of door, and renewal text of Seti I based. 3.2 Outer lintel, double scene, King sacrifice water (left) and wine (right) to Amun.
Outer lintel, Text of souls of Nekhen a King purified by two gods
c Remains of large offer list.
XXI a Three scenes 1 King libers to Amun 2 Thutmose II offering wine to Amun 3 King (rest destroyed). b Remains of three scenes, 1, king with c King for a god
Portique du sanctuaire de la barque
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c Thutmose II consecrate sacrifices to Amun.
a Three scenes 1 Thutmose Ill offers four bracelets to Amun 2 Hatshepsut for Amun / 3 Thutmose IIIth touch Amun b three scenes, Thutmose III with statue of Amun 1 and 3, mostly destroyed, 2 supporting the king's statue c King embraced by [Amon].
Four scenes, Thutmose II for Amun 1 and 2, purifying 3 clothes with nemes 4 touch b Four scenes, Thutmose II for Amun 1 standing 2 offer incense 3 offers four vases 4 offer
Neferhotep visiting the temple of Amun at Karnak as depicted in his tomb TT49
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Inner lintel and left diary, texts Interior door, CHORINST photo. 3219. 6.2 Door station
2.1 Double image, sitting, Thutmose Ill and [Amon]
Chapels Toetmosis I
Outer left door frame, Nile gods with offerings.
c Two registers 1 (hts) ceremony, 2 remnants of scene, Hatshepsut, changed to Thutmose II (represented twice), at ritual exaltation of four statues, from Dedwen of Nubia,
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XVI Purification chamber (?)
2.2 Double statue, seated, Amenophis II, top and foot trample the Nine Arches, with [Amon]. a King lactating in the presence of b Nile god with offerings
b King led by [Thoth] and Horns (?) to Amun, with thanks for buildings in the temple. c King hugged by Amun d King embraced by a god.
Inner lintel, three gods, hawk and souls of Nekhen, left door frame, Nile gods.
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A large, virtually empty square space stands in the center of Karnak today, as very little remains of the Middle Kingdom temple that once marked the heart of Amun Ra's cult. Only a series of rose granite doorway sills and a large calcite alter from the original temple can still be seen today. This area is now called the "Middle Kingdom Measurements:court."The temple measured 38m by 38m and stood 6m high; The rectangular chapels of Amenhotep I were 3.1m high, 2.6m wide and 3.65m deep; the small chapels along the court’s bisecting wall were 1.1m wide, 1.3 deep and 1.75m high.
Destruction: Hatshepsut Hatshepsut removed the Middle Kingdom temple's portico of Osiris pillars to make room for her new temple sanctuary, the "palace of Ma'at." The rest of the Middle Kingdom temple may have stood until the 4th century AD when the temple was closed and the blocks were removed for new building projects by the inhabitants of the city.
Amenhotep I While possibly leaving most of the Middle Kingdom Senusret I temple as it stood, Amenhotep I drastically renovated the area around it. Two short walls were appended to the Senusret temple's western façade, limiting access to the aisles flanking the temple. The middle and eastern sections of the Middle Kingdom mud brick wall were removed and replaced with a limestone enclosure and a series of rectangular chapels. The chapels the court before the Senusret temple. The court was delimited on its western edge by a new high limestone wall and gate, and bisected into a western and eastern section by another stone wall. Along one of these walls, the king placed sixteen small limestone chapels side of the wall's central doorway) opening to the east. The northern line of chapels appears to have held cult statues of the god Amun the central area of this new court stood one of the king's bark chapels. Recent study suggests this may have been a wooden ch king's well known calcite chapel.
Middle Kingdom Court
c Heb sed The space in the Middle Kingdom Temple, south (right) of the Most Holy and the vestibules
(See the webpage Amenhotep I calcite chapel for more information on this feature. Nine meter long screen walls flanked this chapel on its northern and southern sides. These walls were covered with relief scenes of the king's jubilee festival and other cultic rituals Outside of the court, the king may have constructed a small mud brick pylon. A brick wall between this pylon and the court may have been fitted with a limestone door or Constructiongate. materials: limestone, calcite
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Senusret I Senusret I built a limestone temple dedicated to the god Amun Ra at Karnak, probably replacing a much smaller sandstone temple on the same location. As reconstructed by one scholar, a 3m deep portico lined with twelve pillars fronted the western side of Senusret's temple. The pillars, the bases of which were made from reused sandstone, were adorned with engaged statues of the king in the pose of Osiris. Behind the front portico was a large, open air courtyard with a single row of pillars on each side. After crossing a series of red granite thresholds into the temple's sanctuary, a 90 degree turn to the left gave access to the naos (supported by the calcite altar) where the cult statue of Amun Ra was housed.
Construction materials: limestone, rose granite, sandstone, calcite It should be mentioned that François Larché has recently challenged the size and orientation of Gabolde's reconstruction of the Middle Kingdom temple area (2007). He suggested that the temple covered a much smaller area and may have faced east, towards a now disappeared Nile channel.
a The alabaster base of the shrine of Amun The Most Holy of Amun in the 'Ipet soet' b Heb sed The space in the Middle Kingdom Temple, north (left) of the Most Holy and the vestibules
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Middle Kingdom Court 5 Central Area51 d Grand Chateau D'Amon The various parts were found in very different places: Hypostyle room / e The three thresholds in the 'court of the middle kingdom' (Ses I) The two vestibules in the middle kingdom Temple bloc d’Amenemhat Ier, détail de la ceinture du dieu Montou Fig. 17 14Fig.58 15Fig.59 Fig. 3 47 Fig. 2 46 Fig.6016 Fig. 5 49 Fig. 4 48 Fig. 6 50 Figures Fig. 1 45
Measurements: The building is 40m deep by 77.5m wide. The main pillared hall spans 40m.
a Procession of [boats from Theban Triad], offering from Seti II to the barque of Amun with priests and fanbearers.
It is possible that the building overlaid an earlier temple on the same location dated to the reign of Hatshepsut or to the co regency of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III.
Depictions of exotic flora and fauna sighted by the king on his military campaign are inscribed onto the walls of the famous "botanical room," located in the temple's northeast section. The "botanical room," fittingly adorned by four papyrus columns, led into the Akhmenu's main sanctuary. Eight niches lined the sides of the sanctuary's walls; each originally held a statue, possibly of the Theban Ennead. A larger niche in the rear was left for the placement of the naos.
Construction materials: sandstone
A stairway accessed from the northeast corner of the pillared hall led up to a solar shrine on the roof of the temple. A Heliopolitan type solar altar, shaped like a series of hetep symbols, stood within this solar sanctuary.
Thutmose III began construction on the Akhmenu in the 23rd year of his reign and it was completed 7 years later. Inscriptions in the "botanical room" record that decoration of the temple began 2 years after initial construction. The large pillared hall commemorates the jubilee of Thutmose III, likely celebrated in his year 30.
D.1 The entrance of the 'Ach menoe' (TIII)
The temple's main pillared hall (the heret ib) was covered with a beautifully painted blue ceiling with yellow stars. The roof was supported by two rows of uniquely shaped columns representing the poles of a portable tent. At the north of the hall stood three chapels decorated with relief scenes of cult rituals and processions, including the procession of royal statues (the wehem ankh). Inside the largest of these shrines stood a quartzite triad of Thutmose III with the gods Amun and Mut. The southeast sector of the building, dedicated to the god Sokar, consisted of a suite of rooms leading onto a hall with eight fluted columns. The block of rooms just north of the Sokar suite were dedicated to the ithyphallic form of the god Amun and to the king himself.
2 colossi on both sides: King in costume of the Sed festival. TIII, surused by Seti II, name in blue on the northern colossus Door was rebuilt in the Ramesside time
b Syrian name rings. c Entrance. Titles of Thutmose III and cartouches of Ramses
The Akhmenu was a large, rectangular temple located in the eastern part of Karnak, just outside of the original early 18th Dynasty temple complex. Entrance to the building was gained through a main door in the temple's southwest corner, as well as through a door (only recently discovered) in the center of the building's west wall. The southwest entrance led to a line of nine small chambers to the south and to a short vestibule on the north. A small room north of the entrance corridor, known as the "hall of ancestors," was the location of a type of king list; sixty one kings, the royal ancestors of Thutmose III, were depicted seated and receiving offerings from the king. The earliest preserved king names listed refer to 4th Dynasty rulers of Egypt.
The great palace "Akh Menou", like something new, from beautiful white stone of Aïn Basalt statue (2 m high) of T III found in the Cour de la cachette (Cairo 38234) belonging to the Akh Menou. King with white crown, and foot on 5 the other on 4 arches Heret ib
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Texts within the hall describe the building as a "mansion of millions of years," a type of building that in part was dedicate d to the cult of the divine king. Many of the mortuary temples on Thebes’ west bank were given this same title. The temple appears to have served as a locus of cult for worship of the king's royal ancestors, the divine king Thutmose III, the god Amun (unified with the king), as well as solar and underworld deities.
a Two registers 1 king offering wine to god and goddess / 2 two scenes, king (destroyed on the left) before Amun. CMC. OR. INST. statue. 6189.
Later changes to the Akhmenu were minimal. The upper solar shrine was altered and decorated in the Ramesside period. A new stairway may have been added at this time as well. Decoration in the rooms dedicated to the king and the ithyphallic Amun was altered during the reign of Alexander the Great in the fourth century BCE.
D.1.2 Vestibule 16 sided column, (On side of opposite wall), Syrian cities were on the geographical list
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D.1.3 Antechamber Passage (?), Enlargement from the Ramesside period. Room rebuilt several times, decorations Seti II (redone!) In depth (creux) not in relief Ramses IV placed cartouches under the scenes
2 columns of sandstone, 'white stone of Aïn' (16 members) with vertical text T III.
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e Two registers 1 King, Souk and [Thenent destroyed], with formula for Amon 2 [King] kneeling offering Amachite and lapis lazuli to Amun.
2.1 / 2 Different moments of the Sed party, 1st scene incomplete, King preceded by priest iwn nwt.f, for a society of gods
D.1.5 Chapelle des ancetres
1st register 1 departure from King palace with standards / 2 with flail and MKS to Thoth and Mert / 3 run with flail in front of palace.
b 1st scene arrival of the boats of Amun, Mut and Chonsoe carried by men, (3 rows of 5 falcon and jackal headed) Under the boat of Amun text (...) B169 Replaced blocks, scenes of King offering to barks of Theban Triad on stands.
Intended for the ritual materials, fragrances, incense and clothing
D.2.3 Destroyed north side, Door jambs, remains of texts.
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c North wall with 2 doors to the main hall d Seti II offers victims and offer list [a god]. Cmc. OR. INST. photo. 6898.
The room in which the 'King List of Karnak' was found and towed to the Louvre. (Fichier: P1060217) Louvre, E. 13481 bis Three walls of the room from pink granite, sides 2 x 2 pharaohs, the wall opposite the entrance in the middle with mirror line >>>>> Four registers with seated pharaohs with cartouches above them, the first legible name is Snefroe (D4), before 1 destroyed name (D3?) 4 registers, Thutmose III in homage to 61 kings.
D.1.4 South passage
a Bottom section of offer scenes. / b 3 scenes 2 King, with ka, offer ibri oil to Amun 3 'best oil of'! and from Tel; hero '(ie Libya) to Amun.
1 king in zeb sed dress, preceded by lnmutf and Wepwaut standard / 2 Seth teaches king to shoot
b Two registers Heb sed festival
1stc register, Three scenes
CORRIDORS
Above the entrances of the 1st 6 rooms (3 to 8) there is a text along the entire length: Speech of Thot to the gods (and their answer); announcement of the decree of Amun Re stating that T III is King all over Egypt Between each room 2.3 t / m2.7) scenes of King with white crown received by Amon Re adding an Ankh sign (L197)
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Passage small, above the entrance sill in the name of Thutmose III, at the bottom Ramses III has placed his cartouche in Creux. There is little left in the room, fragments of King between Amun and Mut on the groundD.
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d Two registers 1 [king] with seven standards, and (under standards) Thoth and two priests bring gold and gems to king sitting in a kiosk with the king behind it / 2 Two scenes 1 King, with ka (?), Offer incense to Amun 2 King in! zeb sed dress, with hawk head god and Sopt, offering malachite and lapis lazuli for [Amun].
D.1.6 Chapelle
1 King, with impeller support, preceded by Wepwautstandard, / 2 King (twice) in dress.
2nd register, Two scenes
2nd register 1 King running / 2 priests with standards / 3 King seated in a newsstan
a Remains of similar scenes (b) / b Three scenes, offering King to Amon ithyphallique, 1 bread, 2, milk, ? Presenting 4 vases of water to Amun Re followed by a goddess D.2.4 Door station, remnants of text.
a [King preceded by Inmutf] before Great Ennead (12 register sitting gods)
c King hugged by Amun. Blessing of the offerings; tables, vases, necklaces and bracelets
c Double scene, King, with ka, seated by Amun D.2.8 Three scenes, King with Amun: a Offer: 1 King with red crown in adoration (west) and offering double crown wine (east) to Amun Re / 2 Offering glass of milk (east) to Amun Re Ithy. / 3 Offering of incense (west), King with double crown and vases Water (?) For refreshment (east, King with white crown) to Amon Re bIthyphalique1kingstands
2 OnPILLARSbothsides, King and Ament and Amonit embraced on (b) and (d), by Atum and Monthu on (c) [xst ed. 27], by Amon on (e), by Monthu and Thoth at (f), by [Seth and Nephthys] at (g) [1st edition. 28], by Isis and I, Iarsiesi at (h).
1 Ritual course of the King with red crown, with vases (west), with oars and steering belts (east) for Amun standing between 2 gods 2 Offering vases for refreshment to Amon Re Ithy, West with red crown, East with wh ite crown
D.2.5 a / b Three similar scenes
a Four scenes, King with Amun, offering 1 incense, / 2 bread, 3 / wine, / 4 portrait.
b Four scenes, King with Amun, 1 adoring, / 2 lettuce offering, / 3 wine, / 4 bread
(b), (c) Two Similar scenes 1 King, with ka, offering wine (water on the left) to Amun 2 Consecration by the king offering to Amun Re and dAmonitKingoffering [Amon] incense and libations.
1 king with formula for Amun / 2 offering bread (incense on the right) to Amun / 3 offering water (wine right) to Amun and Amonit. Amonit with Ouas scepter which draws a line as text boundary D.2.6 a / b Three similar scenes
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1 King offering wine (west) and incense (east) to Amun / 2 turn to Amun / 3 bread (cloth right) to Amon and Ament. / ? Amon sitting and Mut (rest destroyed).
D.2.9 a / b Similar scenes. King, with Thoth, dedicates treasure to Amun and Ament (I; Iatl} or right). D.2.10 Room has one floor, 4 scenes
c Three scenes, 1 king offering wine to [god], / 2 receiving life from Monthu, / 3 offering wine to Atum.
2 offer bread 3 offer incense
D.2.7. a / b Three similar scenes
a Three scenes: 1 king who offered wine to Amun, / 2 led by Atum and Monthu, / 3 crowned by Nekhbet and Buto for Amun 2 PILLARS On each side, the king embraced the life of a deity. D.2.11 Space has one floor
10 Colossus standing and sitting statue, both unwritten, and Seti II, kneeling, sandstone, with erased Amenmesse cartridges on the base
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Coptic elements.
Shrines: Amun Mut Chonsoe
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of which the eastern one has been destroyed, of the remaining two only the dividing wall still exists
1 Two scenes: 1 King writes Annals on tablet with Seshet, 2/ King who wrote Hebed text with [Thoth]. / 2 King with sacrifices, and Hathor cow sucking king and protective statue, in boat, with female clappers behind it. / 3 Two scenes walk from King, 2 King, with priest, who offers victims to Amun.
The west wall shows a procession over two registers. The bottom one shows the carriage of the royal statues of the AmonTemple? to the Temple ?, the top register shows the return. The procession aims to celebrate the 'rehearsal of life' (B179). Dancers and dancers, prophets, carrier of offerings, carrier of incense, carrier of HS vases, carriers of the images, including a carrier of flabellum. The upper register is identical, but the last priest carries a female statue The text between the two registers: (B179) The goal is to give life back to the royal statues as it happened with the King in the Sed festival
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D.3.2 Middle chapel.
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4 Two scenes: 1 King with offering before Step Offering stand, / 2 King with victim
5 King preceded by a procession of sistrum players and singers, male and female.
6 Remains of offer list.
Great Collonade Heret ib
Great Collonade Heret-ib
a Curtains / b Light partitions in wood / c Raw stone apse/ d High structure in wood/ e Altar/ f Space for those on duty/ g Narthex/ h Fonts/ i Ambon ??
D.3.1 Right chapel,
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a King with red crown and goddess/ b King Amun Re (falcon head) / e King with double crown for Horus applied by Kopten)
The center consists of 20 red painted tent pole columns (a unique shape) surrounded by 32 square pillars (sandstone) Another architectural curiosity is the fact that the stones protrude on the square pillars and on the missing retaining wall
8 King, with Ka, worshiped Amun. CHORINST statue.
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D.3.5 Narrow passage next to the right chapel leading to a staircase with the words Tetmosis III
D.3.6 Narrow passage behind the chapels: On the north eastern wall 4 niches for the royal statues with images of the King sitting at a table with offerings
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D.3.4 Passage Nord Narrow passage next to the left chapel, over a wall
D.3.3 Left chapel.
Bottom register, 10 gods headed by Amon and Min Upper register partially destroyed 8? gods (10 + 8 see 306 the addition in Karnak in Thebes (...) Image (groupe statuaire Quartzite) partially destroyed of Thutmose III between Amun and Mut
The eastern wall shows the King followed by his Ka who dedicates offerings to the mummyunified shaped gods of Karnak.
b King with priest before sacrifice list.
c Remains of the procession.
Among the valuable insights of the decorative program from the Sokarian rooms we can deduce some ritual scenes, especially on the walls of the best preserved rooms SK.4, SK.5 and SK.6:
Sokarian Room
3. The coronation ceremony (confirmation of kingship), with the nursing of the king by Hathor, or ‘introducing the king into the Great Mansion’, both scenes that can be included in some other rituals. For example, the introduction of the king in the temple appears in the Sokarian rooms of the Akh menu, and in the two raised floor southern rooms (MS.8 and MS.9).
f Remains of character with cloak and short skirt 'the priest of Sokar' followed by a woman (divine wife
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e King takes over nemset vases.
‘Festival of Sokar’, in immediate relation with the ‘Mysteries of Osiris’ in the Akh menu (Osirian rites that take place in the month of Khoiak; an example of a stage of this ritual being: ‘To enter into the purification tent’; Figure 6). Linked with this festival, we find the consecration of the meret chests and driving the calves. These scenes relate to the concealment of the tomb of Osiris, and each chest, prepared for one cardinal point, contained garments or mummy bandages of a different color (Egberts 1995).
d Festival of Sokari with bark by priests, preceded by standards, in front of the shrine, (loose blocks on the ground)
D.4.2 Right west chapel. Presumably place for a reliquary Tableau above the entrance Part visible from a reliquary of the mummy shaped Sokar facing west, at the top text 'get access in the tent of the cleaning'
aD.4.1Remains of the procession and beyond scene, King purifying Amun with water and incense.
Henubark carried out of the shrine on the shoulders of priests (south wall of the court and loose block virtually replaced at the upper left corner)
4. The celebration of the ‘Sed Festival’ (‘wish form, and specific iconography on the north wall of room SK.6, with the ‘coming in and going out of the per wr’, the king carried by the baw of Pe (Figure 7), with reference to ‘all lands, all foreign countries, and the haw nebw (lie) under his feet’). Once more, the iconography linked with the ‘Sed Festival’ rites in the raised floor rooms is undoubtedly additional to that appearing in the close area of the southern rooms.
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Sokar was in charge of the revival of Osiris, and the passing on of his kingship to Horus. Every year the power of the king was renewed and confirmed during the ‘Sokar Festival’. This throws light on the connections between the royal crowningv ritual or its confirmation depicted in the southern rooms and other ritual scenes; we have both the ‘Sokar Festival’, traditionally associated with the passing on of the king’s power, and the raising of the djed pillar that symbolized the rebirth of the king, here identified with Osiris the god Sokar being a form of Osiris.
The epigraphic survey and study of the Sokarian Rooms reliefs and inscriptions described in this contribution are part of a project, which includes a photographic survey and publication of facsimiles, covering this whole self contained area built by Thutmosis III in the temple of Amun Ra at Karnak. This four angled architectural space, accessible by a single door from the columned and pillared hall called heret ib, was interpreted as a cult centre devoted to the god Sokar. Many representations of the henu bark, emblem of Sokar, appear on the walls of the eight columned hall (SK.Sh) and on loose blocks probably coming from this court and the chapels built in the southern part (SK.1 to SK.3). In the inscriptions, the divinity is called ‘Sokar, the great god, master of the shetyt’, a name for the cabin of the henu bark, where all the parts of the body of Osiris were gathered in order to reconstitute the physical integrity of the god. This compound could be connected with the Osirian rites, because Sokar is always associated with the cult of Osiris during the New Kingdom (Sokar can take on the appearance of this god in this period) and to its rites of rebirth. The king, identified with the god Sokar, performs the funerary rites of the tent of purification and of the opening of the mouth. As revealed in many Theban temples, a compound was dedicated to Ra (with a solar altar in the north east), and here in the Akh menu, a set of rooms devoted to the composite form (Ptah )Sokar Osiris.
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1. The daily offering ritual (to the statue of Amun). This ritual, aiming at the regeneration of the divine image, comprises the purification and clothing of the god after incensing and ointments. The speech of Thoth on the east wall of room MS.7 details the stages of purifying the divine statue by the king: with incense, with water held in nemeset vases, and lastly with hesemen natron balls. By so doing, the Ennead can ‘breath the sweet scent of the god’. Indeed, the goal is to rejuvenate the god identified to Osiris as Ra (by means of ointment, clothes, and green eye
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2 rows of 4 polygonal 16x columns (base 1 mtr diameter, Total height 7.155 mtr with on the inside a vertical text of Thutmose III with a protocol (...)
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Upper register 1st destroyed and 2nd scene King bare headed with behind him Ka same size) for Sobek Re sitting on green chairs, Sobek gives the King the Ankh? sign.
3rd scene presentation to Amon Re Ithyphalique 4 animals with horns by the King adorned with the double crown, then adorned with the red crown and accompanied by his Ka, the King offers incense and libations to Amon Re, as the last King barehead offers bread Amon Re
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3rd scene King with red crown conquers pieces where, King with red crown presents a table with divine offerings for Amon Re Ithy, King with red crown, Ankh receives from Amon Re b South wall
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N Column Thutmose III for Montoe and Thenent D.4.6
Last scene with the title 'entering the per our and going out again' King with cloak and red crown is transported on a 'bark' sepa by 2 souls of Bouto to the chapel of the north (...)
Tableau above the entrance: Procession of the Bark of Sokar, carried by 2 x 8 priests accompanied by a 9th (king?) Walking on the side. It is preceded by 4 priests who hold the pulling rope, priests wear a bandage around the head and string on the back, a necklace around the neck. Before that the signs Oupouaout and the (nébride) of Chonsoe D.4.4 Left chapel, Probable place for the barque Block in the Sokar room (western wall) shows part of a boat and the Kingwith outstretched arms Destroyed tableau above the entrance of the left chapel. D.4.5 / 6/7 3 elevated warehouses on the east side
D.4.3 Middle chapel. Probable place for the statue
Upper register King is purified by Chnoum, 'who resides in the house of protection', King is crowned with white crown and offers 2 vases followed by his Ka, King purifies Amon Re Ithyphalique with water from 2 times 4 vases
Access through two doors in the Sokar hall destroyed, traces of stairs Each room is supported by 2 square columns and the walls are divided into 2 registers with a frieze of 'khakerou' at the top D.4.5
Lower register scenes of purification of Amun by the king.
Lower register,
a North wall (Sed celebrations)
Upper register Remnants of 3 scenes running from north to south; King with Ka sitting on a sm: t: wy between two cartouches on a pelvis, taken by a god, received by a god (Sokar)
Upper register King with the red crown offers loaves of bread to Amun Re, then the ritual loop with the oar and send double crowned King offers to Amon Re 4 cattle, 4 suitcases mryt and white bread b South wall
Lower register White crowned King and Ka is received by Montou Re sonter who hands Ankh, King grazes offerings (on various registers) to Amon Re Ithyphalique and breads
Upper register 1st scene King is accompanied by Mut for Hathor (Lady of Denderah) and Seth (l'Ombite, master of the southern lands, great god), King with double crown followed by his Ka is breast fed Hathor, for Semtous (hieracocephale), King with a double crown with a flabellum in right and Makes in left hand, receives the palms of the millions of years from 4 gods: Mut, Amonit (or Ouadjet), Seth and the goddess Nekhbet of Nekhen, finally the King bareheaded is received by Horus who gives him the sign of life
Upper register, 1st scene shows the preparations for the party performed by Horus and Seth; purification of the Per our (...) which is grabbed by 2 characters; landing of the boat Sepa (...) whose throne has been destroyed King with red crown and long cloak from which his hands hold the scepter hk and flagellum, sitting on a (bear?) Throne (L201) King in Osiris posture sitting in throne in the form of Heb, before him the signs of Chonsoe (formless skin) and Oupouat called 'opener of the roads' by the souls of Pe, behind the King two half heavens and the signs for Scorpio and Ka (for the big step) In the right hand of the King an extra long fence ... (L201)
N Column King with Re Harakti and Hathor (destroyed)
a North wall
The easternmost part has been restored by Alexander when he rebuilt his chapel, although the cartouches were put in the name of Thutmose III
Lower register Destroyed, King with white crown, taken by Horus Northern wall
Z Column King with Ka for Amun Re
a Western wall
1st scene destroyed, 2nd scene; King with atef crown is received by Amun Presentation of stacked offerings, 2 rows of banners (...) B189 behind the King mummy shaped Chonsou 'nefer hotep from Thebes' Amon Re sitting with Amon Ithy behind him b South wall
King takes the scepter w: s from Libyan Horus (..), while the souls of Bouto cry out The (carrying?) Seat of the party for which the signs of Oupouaout and the nébride Chonsoe stand
Top register Destroyed; some fragments of a course of the pharaoh
Lower register: Offering milk to Amun; various offerings to Amun Ithy; 2 vases of milk for Amun with 2 groups of cattle behind King and vases of milk over 2 registers, followed by the god Tjeni 'master of the horned animals. King with double crown and Ka present to Amon Ithyphalique a herd consisting of a cow with a calf? and 2 bulls (...) (Lƒ79)
Lower register 1st and 2nd scene are missing
c Bottom of four ritual scenes. ChOrInst statue. 8838.
D.5.4 South Chapel
Register 2 Three scenes king for Amun 1 purifying 2 offering natron 3 performing 'opening mouth' ritual.
In depot A, fragment of granite altar by Thutmose III, and head of Hatshepsut with Horus name of Thutmose I on back, id. ib. Fig. 3, 4, pp. 131 2. In deposit B, alabaster and granite fragments of royal statues, id. ib. Fig. 5, 6, p. 132. Deposit C, upper part of the small obelisk of I: JaremQ.ab, schist, in Cairo Mus. Ent. 888os, id. ib. Fig. 7 [top], pp. 132 3 (obelisk probably belonging to fragments in Cairo Mus. infra, p. 166). In deposit D, bottom part of the same obelisk (on block of I, Iatshepsut Blocks, sandstone, from architrave of I: Jatshepsut, reused in pavement.
Antechamber
a / b / c Texts of Thutmose III / d Offer list, with offers below and Thoth and Inmutf at the bottom, all seated before king with ka
a King embraced by a god / b Calves float to a god. / c / d Similar scenes, 1 King running to God 2 sacrifice (victims on the right) to a god. D.5.3 North Chapel
1st room
D.6.5 Original chapel of T III, completely rebuilt / rewritten by Alexander the Great a Door jambs (outside the chapel), name Temple b Entrance, Alex. for 8 gods
D.5.2D.5
b Bottom of three scenes, from right to left, King with Amun, 1 led by two gods 2 hugged 3 ordained sacrifices.
e Remains of statue, Thutmose Ill (?) as hawk, LUBICZ 203. See BARGUET, Temple, p. 195 with note 2.
d King, preceded by two standards, for Ennead. (393) Double scene, king led by god and goddess to Amun. ChOrInst Photos. 6921, 8840 (d / e)
d Register 1 Alexander, followed by J: Iacpi kneeling with vases, sanctifies sacrifice list to Amun
d Bottom of three foundation scenes. CHORINST statue. 8839.
e Doorpost, text of Thutmose III, and lower part of the King beyond. CHORINST Photos. 6922, 693 D.6.3 Sanctuary of Thutmose III.
e Similar stage / f Remains of king for god and goddess.
c Two scenes, 1 King, with ka, in front of a god, 2 king embraced by a goddess.
With double crown and Ka in adoration for Amon Ithy
a Two scenes. 1 King with Amun 2 King, preceded by Lutmef and a man who made offerings to Amun. ChOrInst statue. 6924; offer of 2, LUBICZ 206.
c Right wall, starting above entrance, Two stops: 1 Four scenes, Alexander for Amu 1 offering lettuce 2 with formula 3 with ka offering vase 4 with Sokari, offering ointment
c Door post, granite, with name of door to Thutmose III and renewal text of Seti [11] at the bottom, and Thutmose III in Heb sed clothing out there. D.6.2 2nd room
a Door jambs, remnants of royal titles, with king behind them.
Sokarian Room 6 Akh Menou59
a Lower part of three scenes 1 king with ka on sma symbol 2 King crushed by two god 3 King with, in front of the statue of Min (?) ChOrInst Photos. 7088, 8821
c/d Statue benches, Thutmose III, granite and AmenemQ.en III, limestone.
Funeral Chapels
Sanctuary D.6.1D.6
b Down scenes, I; Iatshepsut with formula before Min (?), And for Amun. ChOrInst statue. 7019 [left].
With white crown and Ka purification with purification with terebinth with arms in adoration
b Base, Nile God with female season, doorway and table of offerings before Ennead. ChOrInst statue. 8837. Temple Rooms Festival XXVI XXX
D.6.4 1st space right Thutmose III, partially renewed by Alexander. BARGUET, Temple, pp. 192 3 [b]. a/b Door Jambs, text with name of the Temple each, and Thutmose III directed by Amun above at (a). c/d/e Lower part of scenes.
2 Seven scenes, 1 Alexander purified by Horus 2 Thutmose Ill standing 3 statue of Thutmose Ill seated, 4 Alexander with staff, 5 offering dsr bear 6 with formula for Amun 7 with mace for Amon.
e Altar (?) base, Thutmose III, alabaster, with Nile gods and dedication text above three sides and steps in the front, originally found in the back, found in fragments and removed. Four foundation deposits, found in situ. See VARILLE, op. cit. p. 130, we plan on fig. 2.
Botanical Garden
D.7.1
M. Hoploptère épineux ou ‘vanneau à éperon’, Hop/op/erus
D Grue cendrée, Crus cillera (Kranich). le. L'Anhinga de Levaillant, ‘oiseau à cou de serpent’, Plotus Levaillantii (Schlangenhalsvogel).
b Two registers. I and II, plants, birds and animals.
c West
The antechamber itself is also unusual for its remarkable width (14.79/14.83 m), which explains was necessitated by the presence of four large bundled nh≥b.wt columns aligned along the east west axis. Between each outer pair of columns Auguste Mariette found in 1861 a sizeable royal sphinx of Thutmose III, now in front of the Cairo Museum (Laboury 1998, 179 discovered in situ,7 facing northward, that is, facing the sanctuary, a rather unusual position for that kind of sculpture.8 There was also an offering table positioned in front of each statue (now also in the Cairo Museum) and some kind of a dais on which, according to Nathalie B could stand to be purified before entering the sanctuary. As with the calcite base in the axial sanctuary (cf. note 6), the sizes of these sphinxes assure that they were placed in the room before the roof was added; doubtless they were found in their original position
S Aigrette blanche, Herodias alba (Edelreiher).
Figure 3.1. Layout of the Hidden
B Probablement le Choucas des tours, Monedula 7 nui= (die Dohle).
e East Two registers. I and 11, Plants and birds, with gazelle in I, and text of year 25 at left end. Preceded by the text King, Plantes que sa majesté a trouvées dans la terre de Retenou (Syria)
Pieces from a large square calcite base, provided with a frontal staircase, almost certainly intended to hold a tabernacle for a divine statue. Beyond this evident and normal use, the calcite base also allowed access to a hidden door, situated 1.05 m above the ground at the eastern end of the northern wall of the sanctuary. This elevated door, which was probably not easily visible with the tabernacle in position, is the only entrance to the “Botanical Garden.” Thus, the axial sanctuary, which looks ostensibly like a normal, traditional sanctuary, appears in fact to have been a place of transition, giving access to an even more secret and sacred space, a sanctuary behind the visible and expected one, a real “holy of holies.”
R Vanneau ordinaire (Gewâhnlicher Kie bite).
2 Peut être la Mandragore officinale
This sanctuary is very unusual in many respects: in its architectural design, its dimensions, its decoration in fact, everything in it seems exceptional. The function of the axial sanctuary itself is also clearly defined by its wall decoration, which illustrates the daily divine ritual.
d Plants and text.
K Frégate aigle ou ‘aigle de mer’, Tachypetes Aquilus
L.(Fregattvogel).Perdrixgrecque, 'Perdrix Graeca (Steinhuhn).
Akh menu's "hidden" sanctuary
ON(Sporenkiebitz).Mouette(Alâve),Coucald'Égypte, Centropus Aegvptus (Sporenkuckuck).
a Doorposts, remains of royal titles. CMC. OR. INST. statue. 7019 [right].
1 Lotus Bleu, Nvmphea caerulea Saoig.
H Colombe Biset, Columba Livia (Felstaube).
J Tourterelle, Turtur (Turteltaube).
Q Oie sauvage (Saatgans).
The sanctuary (fig. 3.1.4) is also unusually large, with its very long side walls carved with eight niches, four on each side; six of these were later enlarged to accommodate not one but two divine statues (Beaux 1993; and more recently Carlotti 2001, 131 33). Including the spacious tabernacle on the axis of the room, there were no less than nine statue niches in this sanctuary. The lower part of a granite statue of Thutmose III holding a ritual stand or libation altar in front of him, probably similar to the one found in fragments in the axial sanctuary, was also discovered there (Laboury 1998, 184 85). 6 at 14.75 mtr., Columns 7.5 mtr. high Only accessible via D.6.3 via a step and a niche in the wall
Botanical Garden 6 Akh Menou60
CONVERTED, chapels are narrowed
a Above interior doorway, Amin and royal titles, left door frame, royal btitles.Two registers. 1 Ramses III before a god, 2 two kneeling souls of Pe, and cartouches of Ramesses Ill.
A female Gazelle. / B (Sporen?) Gans, Goose (spur?), Plectopterus? / C Perhaps a bustard (die Trappe), folds. D
Northern hall D.8.1 Hypostyle
48 Vitis vinifera (vines).
Access to this room is via a staircase from a later time, originally the access stair will be along the wall of the Akh Menou. The foundations are solid.
a Outer lintel (on the ground), double scene, Thutmose III kneeling offering vase to Amun. b / c / d / e Plants and birds.
<\KR-MENOU ETAT RAMESSIDE XXe DYNASTIE Pl. 48 ::::oupes AA' et BB' .., ( n J \ D D r A A 11!11!11 11 l J "' \l'Ji• 1 B ==o-1='1
D.7.2 Space across the botanical garden
f / g / h Sacrifice table of Thutmose III, and base of libation table, both granite, ? fragment of sacrificial table of Thutmose III, alabaster. e Statue of [Thutmose III], lower part, granite, with libation altar dedicated to Amun in Akhmenu. D.7.3 Blocks in wall with flora and fauna a Outer lintel (on the ground), double scene, offering Thutmose III wine, and offering water, to Amun. Right door jamb, remnants of pattern. BARGUET, Temple, p. 201 [2] with note 3 b Two scenes. 1 Thutmose III led by two gods to Amun, 2 King to Amun. Remains of text, id. ib. p. 201 note 4 D.7.4 Room with 3 side chapels
Solar Room 6 Akh Menou61
32 Arum italicum Linnaeus.
43 Fruits of Punica granatum (pomegranates).
c The north wall has been partially preserved, in the name of Ramses III. At the bottom of a horizontal row (mention of a protocol) in the name of Ramses IV, between the cartouches of Ramses III are: 3 Souls of Nekhen, jackal headed, kneeling on the ground in a gesture of acclamation to the East, preceded by the king 3 Souls of Pe, falconry, gesture of acclamation to the rising sun, preceded by the king On the right side of the scene, the goddess Merit of the South with a welcoming gesture. The register above shows Ramesses III for a number of gods, including the Theban Triad.
D.8.2 / 3 2 Chapels with an elevation in the back
24 27 Flower of a compound on long straight stalk, probably a chrysanthemum? (Keimer '
25 Perhaps a Dracunculus vulgaris with stem and rhizome after the fall of the sepals and petals?
Possibly the shrill Oedicriem (der Triel), Oedicnemus crepitans. / E Rock pigeon? (Fels)? (Taube) ?.F Spur Cuckoo (Sporenkuckuck), or Egyptian Coucal. / G Traveling grasshopper / H Crow (Rabe) or Corneille (Krâhe).
39 Flower of a genus of Iris (Schweinfurth).
c Two fluted columns with text of Thutmose III and royal titles on architrave ChOrInst statue. 6925. d (?) Sacrificial table, Thutmose III, fragment, with dedication text, granite, left of entrance, e (?) Base and bottom of group, a scarab, protected by a vulture, and two small sphinxes, in south f (?) Purification pedestal fragments as a sacrificial table], Thutmose Ill, 'for the use of the divine fathers,
'La salle haute du soleil levant'
14 Genus of Calenchoe, probably Calenchoe dejiciens Forsk, or Calenchoe Aegyptiaca.
Solar Room
D.9.1
D.8.4 chapel at the other end a / b remnant of a relief, only feet left c sacrificial scene with 2 cows
a Correct door frame from doorway to side room, cartouches from Thutmose Ill. CHORINST statue. 7155. b Bottom of two scenes. 1 King's founders [mt to Amun, make 2 offerings to Amun.
35 (and maybe 31?) (After Schweinfurth).
1. Dracunculus vulg. Schou f Arum dracunculus). a) Whole plant with one flower and five leaves. b) Whole plant with rhizome, two leaves and a flower.
Columns Toetmosis III
d Two statues against the northern back wall of the peristyle of TI e Nilometer
c Block on top of the wall and block on the floor, one with the 'opening of the mouth' of the king a figure on the bow of Amu.n's barque, followed by a procession of barques
Room No. 2 was decorated during the reign of Thutmosis III (relief sculptures). Unfortunately a large part of the walls has disappeared. As in the previous room, the south wall consisted of a veneer intended to compensate for the fruit of the limestone enclosure of Thoutmosis I. The latter having entirely disappeared, only a few blocks of the veneer belonging to us. For the rest, we can only see in place about half of the decoration of the back wall (east) and the lower two thirds of the east end of that of the north wall. The gate of the enclosure is almost completely destroyed.
D.9.2
1st register Remains of the procession before statue. four scenes.
C.18
c Round pit
of three scenes I and 2, King to Amun, 3 to the Teban Triad. Base, kneeling Henu and souls of Pe and Ekhen (each for Ramses III cartouches) with Northern Mert, and Ramses IV dedication text below. Part of the scene on the base, and dedication text, CHRISTOPHE in Ann. Serv. lii (1954), pl. I [1, 2], pp. 254 5; Omit Mert, Cmc. OR. INST. statue. 6887. Text of zenu and souls, BARGUET, Temple, pp. 203 4; d Alabaster Altar with cartouches of Ramesses III, probably of the origin Thutmose Ill, with Nile gods and Nome gods. (Heliopolitical type 0.80 m high from four parts (see also roof of building ...) Restored on top of Amun's name (after Amarna) See BARGUET, Temple, p. 204 with note 2.
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The temple ring wall (Toetmosis i)
?? Passage to stairs. (a), (b) door columns of Thutmose III, (c) King embraced by Amun. a Two registers, procession of royal statues. (2e register?)
e Block, replaced, a god (?) And images of Queen Siti <ol_J. and Ill Thutmose with staff and mace. f King with Natron Iibating sacrifices. g Niche with remnants of text. h Thutmose III with mace and fzeb sed wall and remains of date palm grove of Buto with shrine.
D.10 Corridor
a The great altar north of the Hatshepsut chapels. Dyn. XVIII b Two altars with apes on them
1 Passage Room 2
C.19
An open air courtyard at the foot of the east face of the solar room. Only a headband frieze with the name of Thutmosis III debossed adorns the walls. Access is by a door giving on the eastern branch of the round corridor The outside frame of this door is engraved in the names of Thutmose III.
The Cartouches of Ramses III on the north wall are placed over those of probably Amenmes (D19 for Seti II), the Amo n figures are intact (> RemainsAmarna)
c Top, long cartridge with dedication text from Thutmose Ill. c 31; probably connected with stairs, d Niche. Side walls, Thutmose Sitting, back wall, Thutmose I will offer Amon milk.
7 - Enclosure
a Ramesses II, usurped by Seti II, sacrifices to Amun and Queen Ahmosi Nefertere.
Store Rooms North
b Two registers 1 king with attendant 2 Visor or Upper and Lower Egypt for a pylon (providing access to the chapel (Bark station) of Thutmose III. Possibly Seventh Pylon, with offers beyond
d Above doorway, two stops 1 Double scene (destroyed on the right), while king makes offerings to Amun
Room of the same width as the preceding one, formed the western facade of the whole of the district built between the two enclosures 19. Its width is 4 , 5 rn and its depth of 12.6 m. The study of the decoration makes it possible to restore a ceiling height of 4.8 m. It opens to the west through a door leading to a small open space Access to this space controlling both room 2 and the walkway is through a door at the end of the south return of the enclosure of Thutmose III.
1 Thutmose, who offers frankincense to Amun, 2 purifying statue of Amun 3 procession of singers and prophets with vases (one with royal statue), 4 king who quotes and offers with gifts, prophet with nile gods and torchbearers below, all for Amun b Niche. Left style, remnants of royal titles.
f Chantier de ‘Ha’. A sandstone pipeline from the beginning of the 18th dynasty
7 Enclosure62
o Outer and inner doorways, royal titelatuuyr, with offerings above the inner lintel.
k Outer lintel and all door jambs, roysl titles. Above entrance door, double scene, Thutmose III hand in hand with a god and receiving [life] in each half.
f g Outer doorposts, royal titles.
Room 8
q Five scenes 1 Thutmose Ill ioffert to Amon incense 2 vases 3 bread 4 milk 5 Ankh emblems in saucer
e Three scenes 1 Ptolemy X incense and sacrifice to Amun, 2 offers an image of Maat to Theban Triad and little Chonsu (between Amon and Mut), 3 offers sphinx ointment jar to Ptah in newsstand with Imhotep, 'son of Ptalh, and Amenhotep, son of Hepu, before Room 4a / 4b / 4c
Room 5
2 Amon sitting with offerings and a text thanking King for monuments erected for him.
If the veneer can date from Thutmose III, the columns, anepigraphs but with a cylindrical shaft and resting without transition on a wide base 16, are very probably late. This room communicated with the interior of the temple of Amun thanks to a door pierced for this purpose through the enclosure of Thoutmosis Ier.
h Five scenes, 1 5, foundation ceremony, Thutmose III for Amlin 1 King entering Temple 2 chop the ground 3 kneading brick, 4 measuring the Temple with Seshet 5 Purifying Temple area with natron.
Room 3
Room 6
III (embraced by the goddess added later) with goddess for [a god], all with poles.
u Five scenes, 1 4, king for Amun 5 dedicating victims to Amun
n Thutmose III dedication of stands with vases to Amun.
j Four scenes, from right to left 1 Thutmose Ill purified by Thoth and Horus 2 souls of Pe and Nekhen kneeling, with Thoth and Seshet, both writing on palettes, above, for two seated figures of King who write Heb sed texts on tablet 3 Thoth writing with King Have sed lyrics on stick 4 King sitting writing on tablet and holding Heb sed sticks, preceded by female offerings, for Amun.
z Five scenes 1 Thutmose approaches barque on river before Amun 2 with offerings before Amun on an altar with stairs 3 for Amun 4 ran with bird and staves to Bubastis 5 while he was libating to Amun.
x Door post, Royal title
z " Three scenes 1 [King] for Amun 2 just dragged with poultry by three gods 3 where king makes offerings to Amun
p Five scenes 1 Thutmose III offers milk vases to Amun 2 offering white bread to AmOn 3 speary hippo with two priests underneath 4 establish shnt (with Nubians) 5 devotion to Amun.
t Thutmose III purified by two gods.
A large room occupying the entire width between the enclosure of Thoutmosis I and the round corridor follows the quarter of stores. Its south wall consists of a lining, reinforced with buttresses, pressed against the facing of the enclosure to compensate for its fruit. This device indicates that this room was probably covered. Two columns are still in place. But their position is eccentric and does not correspond to any alignment or rhythm. We believe that these are columns props added to support roof slabs at risk of collapsing15. The dating of this device is not known.
l Two scenes 1 Thutmose Ill offering white bread to Amon, 2 led by a goddess..
The store located to the west of the access corridor has a very different structure. In addition, unlike the other four store s, it is an anepigrapher. Access is through a decorated door at the end of the corridor. The non elevated part, here wider than deep, occupies the entire space between the enclosure of Thutmose I and the corridor around. To the east, the elevated part of this store extends to the access corridor. This part of the district shows traces of alterations following a change of project during construction. Thus the west wall of this store is only linked to the device of the north wall from the fourth seat. We think that this change of plan could explain two of the peculiarities of the next unit.
r Double scene (upper part destroyed), Thutmose Ill and a god holding hands Room 7
s Jamb, royal titles.
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i Double scene, king supporting Amun
wAmun.Thutmose
v Five scenes, 1 5 (2 5, top part destroyed) 1 Thutmose III 'offering in temple' to Amun 2 4 for Amun 5 with sacrifices and victims for
m Thutmose Ill consecrating offerings to Amun
y Thutmose III cleansed by two gods
CONTROLE PL XII XI X PM PAGINA 161 e.v. INTERIOR SOUTH SIDE. GIRDLE WALL. Plans X, XI, XII [2]
469 Scenes 29 36. 29, [1st ed. 3], King, offering lettuce, erects sbnt (with Nubians) before Min, 30, King receiving milk jars from lsis, and from small goddess, Divine mother of Siut (in front of her), 3I, [1st ed. 4], King erecting pillar of Heliopolis before Atum, 32, [1st ed. 5], King with incense erecting two obelisks before Re( (not I;Iu, as in 1st ed.), 33, [King driving four bulls to god], 34, King, with goddess, receiving menat from Hathor, 35, King offering three vases of water to Amun, 36, [1st ed. 6], King offering image of Ma(et to Ptal_l.
471 Scenes 46 54. 46 [1st ed. 9], King with staff and mace before Queen Ahmosi Nefertere, 47, with incense and offerings before Amun, 4S, offering flowers to Khons Neferl_lotep, 49, four natron vases to Amun, so, [1st ed. 1], bundle of cloth to Mut, 51, censing and libating to Amun, s:z, pouring libation before Sekhmet, 53, offering incense to Ptah, 54, bread to Amun.
472 Scenes 55 62. 55, King offering sphinx ointment jar to Mut, 56, withKhons Neferl_lotep, receiving J:teb sed from Amun, 57, [King] between Isis and goddess, 58 59. destroyed, 6o, King offering nemset vases to Amun, 6I' water and incense to Mut, 62, standing before [Amun].
466 Scenes I 9. 1 King, preceded by standards, leaving palace, 2 carried by souls of Pe and Nekhen, 3, purified by two gods, 4, offering flowers to Mut( ?) or perhaps Menl_lyt, 5, with formula before god and goddess, 6, led by two gods, 7, offering sphinx ointment jar to a god, 8, crowned by two gods, 9, King in destroyed scene.
475 Scenes 76 85 76, [King] offering tassel and collar to Ptal_l, 77 [King] before [Amun], 7S, King offering wine to a goddess, 79, food to Amun, 80, libation to Ptal_l, 81, lettuce, and erecting [s!znt] before Min, 82 offering incense to Mut, 83, water to Amun, 84, four ointment vases to Ptal_l, 85, consecrating offerings and victims to Amun and Mut.
C.20 EXTERIOR Tuthmosis Ill (line of text at top), Ramesses II (scenes), Ramesses Ill (text on base).
465 Two scenes. I, King, with Nekhbet, offering beb sed to Thoth, :2, King offering image of Ma(et to Theban Triad.
470 Scenes 37 45. 37, King censing offerings to Amun, 38, offering food to Mut, 39, [1st ed. 7] offering natron to Amun, 40, purifying with four deshert vases before Horus of Letopolis, 4I, censing and libating to Amun, 42, [1st ed. 8], with sistra before Hathor, 43, pouring libation before Amun, 44, offering flowers and incense to Re(I; Iarakhti, 45, standing before Amun.
467 Scenes 10 I9. 10, Loose block, King offering to [god], 11, offering bread to Rec Harakti, 12, consecrating offerings to Amun, 13, offering flowers to Neith, 14, censing and libating to Amun of the Saite nome, 15, offering sphinx ointmentjar to Atum, I6, offering four nemset vases to Amun, I7, running with bap and oar to Bubastis, I8, offering milk to Amun, I9, King about to anoint Khnum.
474 Central scene. King with offerings before [Amun]
n Nilometer
South side. Lower register.
468 Scenes 20 28. 20, King censing offerings to Amun, 2I, offering foreleg to Horus, 22, image of Ma(et to Amun, 23, bark of Sokari to Ptal_l Sokari Osiris, 24, consecrating four boxes of coloured cloth to Amun, 25, about to anoint lion headed Mel_lyt, 26, censing and libating to Amun, 27, holding up sky before Onuris Shu, 28, [1st ed. 2], measuring temple with Sefkhet cabu.
476 Scene 84 Osiris Onnophris with representation of grave of Osiris, and restoration text of Ptolemy V Epiphanes and Cleopatra I.
Exterior Wall 7 Enclosure64
463 Five scenes. 1, Ramesses II offering image of Macet toAmiln, 2, ointment vases to Isis, 3, food to Amiln, 4, incense and libation to I;Iarsiesi, 5, sphinx ointment jar to Amiln. Base, two lines of text, Ramesses II and Ill, usurped in lower line.
477 Scenes 85 97, right to left, (76 88 of Helck, from south to north), 85, King offering fzez plant to Amun, 86, offering sphinx ointment jar to Re< Harakti, 87, censing and libating to Amun, 88, with offerings before Osiris, 89, offering flowers to Amun, 90, consecrating offerings to Isis, 91, offering pectoral to Amun, 92, offering cloth to Ptal}., 93, censing and libating to Amun, 94, offering four purification vases to Khonsemweset Neferl}.otep, 95, image of Ma<et to Amun, ~'flowers to Ament, 97, consecrating four boxes of coloured cloth to Ami'in. (478) (479) [Loc. KI. 84] Central scene, King before [Amun].
464 Graffito, Racmesesnakht, (Theb. tb. 293), libating with offerings to Amiln with cartouches of Ramesses IX on table of offerings.
Outside north girdle wall, running north to south, with cartouches of Ramesses II on entrance and descent.
Exterior Wall
473 Scenes 63 75. 63, King before [Amun ?] 64, King consecrating three stands of vases to Sekhmet, 65, cutting sheaf before Amun, 66, censing and libating to Ament, 67, offering pectoral and collar to Amun, 6S, flowers to Ptal_l, 69, pouring libation, with lotus pool held by rankh, before Amun, 70, offering sphinx ointment jar to Re< Harakti, 71, image of Ma<et to Amun, 72, ointment to Khonsemweset Neferl_lotep, 73, lettuces to Amun, 74, water clock to Mut, 75, driving four calves to Amun.
North side.
i North obelisk. of pyramidion now against brick wall east of the Temple; Amon on one face, E.3.5 Terrain
Construction materials: sandstone, 13,00 / 7,00 mtr
Appended to the rear wall of a temple and opening outward, provided a location for those not allowed to enter the temple proper to interact with the divinities. Standing against the eastern wall of the temple (T III), offered one such place on the eastern side of Karnak. Known as the "chapel of the hearing ear," the shrine allowed the populace of Thebes to petition a statue of the king with Amun Ra Nectanebo I
Nectanebo I added two small shrines to the northern and southern sides of the contra temple, enclosing the bases of Hatshepsut's obelisks. These chapels had round, engaged columns in the center of both their northern and southern walls. Construction materials: limestone E.3.1
f Re used granite base of sandstone column, text PedeAmon nebnesuttaui, 3e prophet of Amon, Late Period.
Amon who hears prayers Imen Sedjem Nehet; MsDr sDm “the hearing ear” Contratempel Thutmose III
c Two registers. I, Bottom of scene, King with offerings, IT, kneeling offerers.
g Remains of King before Amfm, Min, Monthu, and a bark.
i Alabaster double statue, Hatshepsut and Amon, Binding the sma symbol on the side, Transformed into the statue of Min
E.3.3 Chapel South Nectanebo I
E.3.4 Chapel North Nectanebo I
d Alabaster naos (3.00 / 3.00 / 3.00?) with remains of a double statue, Thutmose III with Amon (latter mutilated by Amenophis IV). Doorposts, titles Ramses II / Thutmose III. Remains of Offerings. inner wall; Inmutf priest and offers
l King offering incense and lending it to Amon. /. m King with victims before [a god].
e King offering image of Maat to Amon and Chonsu
b King in [purification scenes] with prenomen of Harnesses II below.
– East Area
Six Osiride colossi, Thutmose Ill, renewed by Seti I, and taken over by Ramesses II, against pillars with scenes on the other faces, embraced by Amon, and l.zeb sed text below. Texts and four scenes from Pillars Intercolumnar walls, each with Nile God and Field Goddess, and text above, royal titles, superimposed on previous text.
d King offering image of Maat to AmOn and Mut
j Doorpost, titles Toetmosis Ill. /. k [King] offering milk to [Min].
e Remains of two scenes, King before a god, Late Period(?).
e similar scenes, King (destroyed at (e)), assigning sacrifices to fifteen figures of Amun (ten fremaining).Doorpost, titles of Toetmosis Ill
a / b Remains of kneeling offerers.
h Feet of Amon, belonging to scene, Re used blocks, including two with cartouches of Ramesses II.
1 Offering table, usurped by a Psammetikhos, granite.,
E.3.2 Court
3 Altar with staircase, Greco Roman.
2 Supply place with libation table. fragment of an inscribed granite offering table, reused in the libation table
HeiligdomObelisqueOosttempelUniqueRamses II De voortreffelijke poort orientaleColonnadede Taharqa Oostpoort
a Outside
T III
a Jamb, King entering, (b) remains of text. /. b Domitian before divinities.
f South Obelisk Base with block and architrave of Toetmosis Ill built in upside down, Pyramidion, found in I884, now in Cairo Mus. I70I2
b Gate of Emperor Dominitian / Trajan doorposts, hymns to Re < Atum. stations, remnants of texts.
c Domitian adoring youthful Chonsu on sma symbol in front of [Amon], and re used blocks.
c Remains of Nektanebos I offering image of Maat to [Amon and Chonsu].
Exterior Wall 8 East Area65 8
d King in [purification scenes] with prenomen of Harnesses II below.
g Remains of scene, three digits. /. h Consecration of sacrifices to Amon.
a Jamb, King entering, (remains of text.
Thutmose IV
f East wall relief North. On the right, Mentoe and Mut accompany the king Left King offers name to Amon in chapel g East wall relief South. Horus and Thot pour cleansing water (Anch and Was) over the king f North face relief Below Scene 1 (next to the gate) Ascending the king. Scene 2 King offers name to Amon / Above Remains of image g South wall relief Under Scene 1 Horus and Thot pour cleansing water
d King's columns
Osiris Catacombs
E.2.4 The Fine Gate
E.2
E.2.3 Hall / court Tempel RII
"Amun Ra, Ramesses II, who hears prayers"
c Mut Gate
e / e' Side entrances
Built around the Unique Obelisk, the temple consists of a gateway and pillared hall with a central false door. Two side doors led to the obelisk. In front of the temple is a later addition of a porch, which has now fallen. Construction materials: sandstone, mud brick. 32m at its widest by 25.5m long
The "Osiris catacombs" were located to the northeast of the core Amun Ra temple, in an area dedicated to the god Osiris. It would have originally been at least partly subterranean. The rectangular baked mud brick structure consisted of a short north/south hallway on its eastern side that provided access to three galleries running off to the west. The galleries were lined with a series of small niches, each originally closed off with clay plaques (remains of which were found within the building during excavations). The brick walls were plastered over and painted, and a few thousand
E.2.2 Remnants of colonnade Toetmosis III
Lintel
E.2.1
The unique obelisk, also known as the "Lateran obelisk," was the largest obelisk ever raised at Karnak. It stood east of the core Amun Ra temple, in an area of Karnak focused on the worship of solar gods. The obelisk remained at Karnak until CE 330, when the Roman emperor Constantine ordered it brought to the city of Constantinople. However, engineers could not manage to move the obelisk out of the port of Alexandria. It was not until CE 356 that the obelisk was moved to Rome and erected at the Circus Maximus. Later it was toppled and broke into three pieces. It was re erected in the 16th century where it stands now in the Piazza san Giovanni in Laterano, Rome.
Thutmose III commissioned the unique obelisk, but the king died before the monolith was erected at Karnak. His grandson, Thutmose IV, raised the obelisk, intending for it to stand as a single monument, rather than in a pair. Thutmose IV added two lines of vertical inscriptions flanking those of his grandfather on each face.
Ramses II
Obelisque Unique 8 East Area66
Scene 2 King offers name to Amon. At the bottom is a line of text engraved by Set II D19
The presence of reused column drums of Thutmose III in the temple suggests that he rebuilt a Thutmoside shrine on the same area. The temple at this time consisted of a small mud brick gateway leading into a pillared hall. The rear of the hall had two doorways and a central false door. The doorways led out into a covered portico at the base of the unique obelisk.
The gate is set in the clay (undulating) wall of TIII, rebuilt by RII and provided with reliefs. The scraps of the lintel lie somewhere on the grounds of Collonade Taharko. Rebuilt by Nectanebo I D30
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Tempel Ramses II
Obelisque Unique
Construction materials: rose granite
On the side of the hall in the middle twice, back to back against each other the seated figure of the god Chonsu. The king approaches him from the left, while he is running the vase run, from the right we see the monarch at the rowers run. Between the backs of the two Chonsoe figures is a text; "Of the millions of" Sed "feasts, forever, on the throne of Atum". This bears the cartouche names of King Ramses II.
On the side of the 4 columns: Left and right the weapon plants of Upper and Lower Egypt are depicted: the lotus and the papyr us, which are bound together in the Shemataoei 'sign. Next to it on either side is the King's Horus name.
Measurements: The obelisk measures 33.1m in height, the tallest ever to stand at Karnak. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateran_Obelisk
b Chonsoe Gate: The great gate (named) 0e sermacitre setepenre (= Ramses II) is great in love like Chonsoe. On the jambs of this passage, on the side of the temple hall, we see the king, on the right (north) with the crown of Lower Egypt, on the left (south) with the crown of Upper Egypt.
a Amon Gate: Originally closed with a niche with Amon / Ramses II double image. Made a gate by Ptolemy VIII. Styles and reliefs with offerings to gods and goddesses. The lintel is in front of the northern king's column d?
Thoutmosis III
Aa1 Destroyed (12th 14th shire)
Bb2 1 Middle part is missing Ascending the king, right with double crown, and Atum?
Aa2 9th 11th shire damaged / Aa3 6th 8th shire damaged Left: Crocodile mark on head, offerings 2 pitchers, Wax scepter / Aa4 Shows destroyed (3rd 5th / Aa5 (1st 2nd shire) ( Leclant, not put back in the right order) Visible share vases and scepter + king figure?
Bb’2 1 Ascending the king / 2 Bringing the royal sacrifice / Composite crown, sacrificial table
Phase: Ptolemy IV
Bb’3disappearedThree acts of the king for Amon / 1 Taharko (hat with high feathers) and Amon / 2 Taharko and Amon. Anch and Djed under the nose (breathe) for king / 3 Taharko offers 2 vases an Amon Bb’4 Destroyed (Vase Run?)
fragments with the name of Ptolemy IV, images of the resurrection of Osiris and the running of the Apis bull provide information on the themes of its decoration.
Measurements: The catacombs measured 25m by 14.5m. Each niche was approximately 30cm high and 90cm deep. Chapelle anépigraphe avec claustrum
E.1.2 Block with performances
19 and 20 restored 1952 Chevrier / Hight (incl. Base) 9.5 m
E.1.3 Greeting block with Baboon's rising sun. Original base for an obelisk.
Walls
2 Bringing the royal sacrifice, sacrificial table gone Bb3 1 Setting up the crowns, left and right Horus and Thot 2 scenes, right in pavilion, in the middle remains of a double crown
Cc1 Destroyed
E.1.1 Block with performances
Columns
Construction materials: fired mud brick
Bb’1 Destroyed
Construction materials: sandstone
Colonnade orientale de Taharqa 8 East Area67
E.1
Aa’2 Bottom section left: Accompanying the king to deity (destroyed), holding hands / Middle: 2 women Oedjo (snake) from Boeto (Pe and Dep) and Nechbet (vulture) from Hierakonpolis / Left: Baoe (predynastic kings) of Boeto. / Right: Baoe van Nechen Aa’3 1 Donning the crowns: 2 scenes: under a canopy with Cheker characters, middle king with Horus (lord of Behdet, Edfu?) And Thot (Lord of the Eight City, Hermopolis) putting on the crowns. A goddess on either side / 2 Bread offering to Amon King with hood and straps, 2 snakes on forehead, (25th D) Aa'4 Wall is still standing, scenes destroyed Aa’5 Damaged with Enneade of Karnak and Baoo of Boeto, Hierakonpolis and Hermopolis before Amon.
Bb1 Lost
Bb4 Completely destroyed Bb5 Gate
Bb’5 Gate
The building was dedicated to the god of the underworld, Osiris. The building functioned as a "hypogeum," an underground burial place. Many of these are known from ancient Egypt, although typically these spaces contained burials for sacred animals. The Karnak example instead served for the burial of small statuettes of Osiris.
Colonnade orientale de Taharqa
Taharqo ; Columned porch composed of four rows of five open papyrus columns, with each row connected by low screen walls. It is unclear whether the columns once supported a light roof. A decorative paving lined the porch: black and red granite stones in its central nave and limestone along its side aisles. This porch was similar to the one Taharqo added to the temple of Khonsu, south of the main Amun Ra temple.
3 Bread offering to Amon, identical to Bb3 but mirrored
Aa'1 Destroyed
Cc’2 Gone
E.1.3
E.1.2
Cc'1 Destroyed
Dd'1 Gate
Eastgate 8 East Area68
Dd’2 3 Shire figures (see Aa2)
Eastgate
Dd3 Destroyed
Cc2 Destroyed
Dd1 remains of a gate
Dd’4 Destroyed, 3 shire figures?
Dd5 Destroyed
Cc'5 Gate
E.1.1 Osiris Koptos (ptolomic)
Relief in transit North King with a burnt offering for Amun (2X phallus) / South?
Cc'4 1 Ascending the king. Dedicate the read pieces / King metr Ka; 4 (slaughtered) tied animals
a / a’ Obelisks / Mentioned in grave by client Bakenchonsu Pedestal red granite 1.60 high 2.90 square, cartouches / Plinth (bottom) sandstone 1.00 high 3.00 square, b / b’ Sphinxes Red granite / Bottom surrounded by Nectanebo I / Roman
Cc'3 Setting up the crowns
Cc3 Pushing the calves, Hoet Bechzoe ritual, king with Atef crown, 2 plumes and ram's horns. / The variegated The white The red (remnants of paint) The black / in right hand 4 ropes, each rope on left calf leg / In right hand 3 short strings with Anch sign, semi circular line (stroke of the rope?) / the left hand a long staff (for pushing calves?) Sometimes depicted with a snake's head. / In right hand a coiled staff, together with a severed Cc4snake.
Dd4 1 Putting on the crowns. /. 2 Bread offering
Dd’3 Disappeared
1 Taharko for Amoin with Ka /. 2 Libation, Thot and Horus
Dd2 1 King leaves the palace (just outside the gate), Cheker characters, open gate / 2 King has reached temple and is cleansed by Horus and Thot / Taharko’s Lake Temple (Northern side of the stage series from east to west) continues these scenes: / 3 King enters temple with Mentu and Atum, is met by Theban Triad Amun, Mut and Chonsu. / 4 King brings offering of 4 (slaughtered) tied beef cattle / 5 King brings sacrificial incense
Cc5 Gate
Dd'5 disappeared
of one of the other northern chapels is a very curious depiction of a small individual standing in the back of a papyrus boat behind a person of larger proportions who is probably the king. The King in such a boat is not uncommon, and we find similar representations in the temple of Luxor and the tomb of Ay. However, what is so unusual about this depiction is that the legs and feet of the smaller individual are completely formed of duck heads. Thanks to an old photograph of a neighboring block which has now disappeared, we know that the smaller figure is actually that of an obscure god named Kheddw, an ancient fishing deity.
Eastgate 8 East Area69 Post AboveScriptumthelintel
