The temple contained hundreds of freestanding statues, sphinxes, and massive steles (tombstone-like slabs of stone) once carved with descriptions of Amenhotep III’s building achievements. It originally included three massive mud-brick pylons, or gates, aligned on a single axis, and a long connecting corridor leading to an immense open solar courtyard, a roofed hall, a sanctuary, and sacred altars. The mortuary temple, constructed not far from his tomb, was the grandest of all mortuary temple complexes built in Egypt. The pharoah's reign was marked by prosperity, political stability, and the creation of some of ancient Egypt’s most magnificent complexes, and his legacy includes an elaborate mortuary temple intended for rituals and offerings to honor him in perpetuity. He is entombed inside the limestone hills of the Theban Necropolis, a sprawling cemetery on the banks of the Nile River opposite modern-day Luxor, where pharaohs and their queens, priests, and royal scribes were buried between the sixteenth and eleventh centuries BCE. Site History and Significance A Pharoah's Grand LegacyĪmenhotep III ruled Egypt for nearly four decades until his death in 1349 BCE at the age of 50.
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