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Amun-re, a fusion with the sun god, Re. formed a triad with Mut and Khonsu. Wears a crown with two tall plumes and a disk. tow major temples at Thebs, one at Luxor, the other at Karnak, were dedicated to the cult of Amun, although both complexes contained chapels to other deities.
wall of the first hypostle hall, or colonnaded, during reign of Tutankhamun. each year, at the height of the Nile flood, the Opet, or Great new Year Festival, was celebrated. Sacred barge of Amun was brought upriver from karnak to Luxor for a visit lasting some three weeks, the occasion bfor savrifices, pomp, and entertainement.
Main part built by Amenhotep III (ruled ca. 1391 – 1353 BC) Ramses II added a court and the entrance pylon onto the north.
north / south
sanctuary was built on highest ground, symbolized the original earth that emerged from the watery chaos at the world’s creation. Hybostyle hall repersented the march of the earliest world, open-air court permitted worship of the sun; pylon represented the mountains of the distant horizon between which the sun rises and sets.
Temple of Amun at Karnak had its origins in the Middle Bronze Age. the plan grew over time around the central sanctuary.
1st pylon – 25th dynasty – never completed
First court contains two temples: shrine of Seti II built to Amun, Mut, and Khonsu, and temple of Ramses III. same triad.
2nd pylon – Ramses II, included in its core a portion of the 60,000 small sandstone blocks that belonged originally to a temple to the Aten, the sun god worshipped as the sun disk,
Horemheb had this temple dismantled, but carefully, so the blocks coudbe reused.
Great Hypostyle Hall, completed by Seti I and Ramses II, and reconstructed in the twentieth century measures 102 m by 53m, twlve columns central passage rise 21 m, the remaining 122 columns to the north and south rising 13m
area is said to be large enough to contain the entire cathedral of Notre Dame of Paris
column capitals broad enough that a hundred people could stand on each.
Exterior walls feature episodes from the military victories of Seti I and Ramses II.
Third Pylon, built by Amenhotep III, patron of the Temple of Amun at Luxor, originally covered with gold and silver, contained in its fill ten dismnatled shrines and temples, notably the Jubilee Pavilion for the Twelfth Dynasty pharaoh Senusret I.
Central Court. Two pairs of Obelisks stood here, Thutmose I…
Pink granite obelisk of Hatshepsut that still stands between Pylons 4 and 5 measures 27.5m in height and weights an estimated 320 tons; originally sheathed in electrum. 7 months…
Pylons 7-10 – date to the 18th dynast. Pylons 7-8 attributed to Thutmose III and Hatshepsut respectively, 9 and 10 to Horemheb. In the court just north of Pylon 7, an enormous pit was discovered in 1902 which contained over 2000 stone statues and 17,000 bronze figures
From Pylon 10 leave precinct of Amun to Temple of Mut, sphinx-lined.
Pylons 4 and 5, built by Thutmose I, enclose a small colonnade, originally roofed. Some of the drama of the 18th dynasty history is attested in this small area.
Hatshepsut erected her pair of obelisks here – transport depicted on the rear walls of the First Colonnade at Deir el-Bahri. Thutmose III not only replaced his aunt’s name with his own but erected a wall around the obelisks to hide them.
Beyond Pylon 5 likes a small colonnaded hall, also erected under Thutmose I, and the last and smallest of the pylons, Pylon 6, inserted by Thutmose III.
Sanctuary for the divine boat, small room, long, narrow, and dark. Satue of Amun, three times each day was washed by the high priest, dressed, perfumed, and presented with food and drink. The original boat shrine was built by Hatshepsut; its dismnatled blocks have been recovered from inside Pylon 3. Present sanctuary of pink granite, remodeling of 330 bc, contribution of Philip Arrhidaeus, the half-brother of Alexander the Great. On the outside wall, south side, Philip is shown being crowned and taken in hand by the gods. Despite Philip’s Greek origin, the style of these reliefs is purely Egyptian.
Botanical Room – reliefs of exotic plants, birds, and animals brought to Egypt by Thutmose III.
Sacred lake – fed by underground channels form the Nile.

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Amun-re, a fusion with the sun god, Re. formed a triad with Mut and Khonsu. Wears a crown with two tall plumes and a disk. tow major temples at Thebs, one at Luxor, the other at Karnak, were dedicated to the cult of Amun, although both complexes contained chapels to other deities.
wall of the first hypostle hall, or colonnaded, during reign of Tutankhamun. each year, at the height of the Nile flood, the Opet, or Great new Year Festival, was celebrated. Sacred barge of Amun was brought upriver from karnak to Luxor for a visit lasting some three weeks, the occasion bfor savrifices, pomp, and entertainement.
Main part built by Amenhotep III (ruled ca. 1391 – 1353 BC) Ramses II added a court and the entrance pylon onto the north.
north / south
sanctuary was built on highest ground, symbolized the original earth that emerged from the watery chaos at the world’s creation. Hybostyle hall repersented the march of the earliest world, open-air court permitted worship of the sun; pylon represented the mountains of the distant horizon between which the sun rises and sets.
Temple of Amun at Karnak had its origins in the Middle Bronze Age. the plan grew over time around the central sanctuary.
1st pylon – 25th dynasty – never completed
First court contains two temples: shrine of Seti II built to Amun, Mut, and Khonsu, and temple of Ramses III. same triad.
2nd pylon – Ramses II, included in its core a portion of the 60,000 small sandstone blocks that belonged originally to a temple to the Aten, the sun god worshipped as the sun disk,
Horemheb had this temple dismantled, but carefully, so the blocks coudbe reused.
Great Hypostyle Hall, completed by Seti I and Ramses II, and reconstructed in the twentieth century measures 102 m by 53m, twlve columns central passage rise 21 m, the remaining 122 columns to the north and south rising 13m
area is said to be large enough to contain the entire cathedral of Notre Dame of Paris
column capitals broad enough that a hundred people could stand on each.
Exterior walls feature episodes from the military victories of Seti I and Ramses II.
Third Pylon, built by Amenhotep III, patron of the Temple of Amun at Luxor, originally covered with gold and silver, contained in its fill ten dismnatled shrines and temples, notably the Jubilee Pavilion for the Twelfth Dynasty pharaoh Senusret I.
Central Court. Two pairs of Obelisks stood here, Thutmose I…
Pink granite obelisk of Hatshepsut that still stands between Pylons 4 and 5 measures 27.5m in height and weights an estimated 320 tons; originally sheathed in electrum. 7 months…
Pylons 7-10 – date to the 18th dynast. Pylons 7-8 attributed to Thutmose III and Hatshepsut respectively, 9 and 10 to Horemheb. In the court just north of Pylon 7, an enormous pit was discovered in 1902 which contained over 2000 stone statues and 17,000 bronze figures
From Pylon 10 leave precinct of Amun to Temple of Mut, sphinx-lined.
Pylons 4 and 5, built by Thutmose I, enclose a small colonnade, originally roofed. Some of the drama of the 18th dynasty history is attested in this small area.
Hatshepsut erected her pair of obelisks here – transport depicted on the rear walls of the First Colonnade at Deir el-Bahri. Thutmose III not only replaced his aunt’s name with his own but erected a wall around the obelisks to hide them.
Beyond Pylon 5 likes a small colonnaded hall, also erected under Thutmose I, and the last and smallest of the pylons, Pylon 6, inserted by Thutmose III.
Sanctuary for the divine boat, small room, long, narrow, and dark. Satue of Amun, three times each day was washed by the high priest, dressed, perfumed, and presented with food and drink. The original boat shrine was built by Hatshepsut; its dismnatled blocks have been recovered from inside Pylon 3. Present sanctuary of pink granite, remodeling of 330 bc, contribution of Philip Arrhidaeus, the half-brother of Alexander the Great. On the outside wall, south side, Philip is shown being crowned and taken in hand by the gods. Despite Philip’s Greek origin, the style of these reliefs is purely Egyptian.
Botanical Room – reliefs of exotic plants, birds, and animals brought to Egypt by Thutmose III.
Sacred lake – fed by underground channels form the Nile.