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    The Precinct of Amun-Re, located near Luxor, Egypt, is one of the four main temple enclosures that make up the immense Karnak Temple Complex. The precinct...
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    Karnak (redirect from Temple of Karnak)
    temples and sanctuaries connecting the Precinct of Mut, the Precinct of Amun-Re, and the Luxor Temple. The Precinct of Mut is very ancient, being dedicated...
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  • change to the Precinct of Amun-Re's layout was the addition of the first pylon and the massive enclosure walls that surrounded the whole Precinct, both constructed...
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    (usually translated as 'most select of places') only really refers to the central core structures of the Precinct of Amun-Re, and was in use as early as the...
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    for the Third Pylon of the temple of Karnak, Precinct of Amun-Re. In 1927, the dismantled pieces were found inside the Third Pylon of the main temple, constructed...
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    The Temple of Ptah is a shrine located within the large Precinct of Amun-Re at Karnak, in Luxor, Egypt. It lies to the north of the main Amun temple, just...
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    Ramesseum and the Precinct of Amun-Re at the Temple of Karnak. The scribes who engraved the Egyptian version of the treaty included descriptions of the figures...
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    of Khonsu is an ancient Egyptian temple. It is located within the large Precinct of Amun-Re at Karnak, in Luxor, Egypt. The edifice is an example of an...
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    the middle of the Precinct of Amun-Re, in the Karnak Temple Complex, in modern Luxor, Egypt. Composed during the reign of Thutmose III, it listed sixty-one...
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    (inside) of the east wall of the Cachette Court, in the Precinct of Amun-Re of the Karnak temple complex, in modern Luxor. It runs from the fourth pylon of the...
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    Amun, Temple of a million years of Rameses III Khonsu depicted in the Temple of Kom Ombo Relief from the Sanctuary of Khonsu Temple in the Precinct of...
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    a limestone door in the Precinct of Amun-Re at Karnak discovered hieroglyphs with the name Senakhtenre, the first evidence of this king dating to his...
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    Akhenaten (redirect from Amun-hotpe IV)
    construction projects at Karnak's Precinct of Amun-Re. He decorated the walls of the precinct's Third Pylon with images of himself worshipping Ra-Horakhty...
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    sacred scarab, is the type species of the genus Scarabaeus and the family Scarabaeidae. This dung beetle is native of southern Europe, northern Africa and...
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    as njw.t-jmn, the "City of Amun", the chief of the Theban Triad of deities whose other members were Mut and Khonsu. This name of Thebes appears in the Tanakh...
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  • Thumbnail for Festival Hall of Thutmose III
    Festival Hall of Thutmose III (Akh-menu) is an ancient shrine in Luxor (Thebes), Egypt. It is located at the heart of the Precinct of Amun-Re, in the Karnak...
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    as the city of the god Amun-Ra, Thebes remained the religious capital of Egypt until the Greek period. The main god of the city was Amun, who was worshipped...
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  • Thumbnail for Bubastite Portal
    Portal gate is located in Karnak, within the Precinct of Amun-Re temple complex, between the temple of Ramesses III and the second pylon. It records...
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    important god of the time was Amun, whose main cult center, the Precinct of Amun-Re at Karnak in Thebes, eventually became the largest of all temples,...
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    temple of Amun-Re at Karnak has been the subject of much study. Evaluation of the site, taking into account the change over time of the obliquity of the...
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    Nectanebo I (category Pharaohs of the Thirtieth Dynasty of Egypt)
    the Precinct of Amun-Re at Karnak, and it is believed that the earliest known mammisi, which was found at Dendera, was built by him. The cult of sacred...
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    the temple of Hathor, or the Osireion of Thebes, built in the Precinct of Amun-Re at Karnak. The Dendera text gives a general overview of the Osirian...
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    Safaga - Port Said - Precinct of Amun-Re - Precinct of Mut - Predynastic Egypt - Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt - Protodynastic Period of Egypt - Psammuthes...
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  • south, a series of doors opened onto a series of vaults of Divine Adoratrices, which were next to the northern part of the precinct of Amun-Re. The enclosure...
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  • indicates the approximate direction of summer solstice sunrise. Precinct of Amun-Re The so-called Giants' Churches (Finn. jätinkirkko), which are large...
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  • Nathalie Beaux-Grimal (category Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni)
    Botanical Garden of the Precinct of Amun-Re at Karnak (1989). From 1997 to 2005, she was French coordinator of Egyptology in the Faculty of Archeology at...
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  • overseer of cattle for the properties belonging to the Precinct of Amun-Re at Thebes existed by the reign of Thutmose II. There was another overseer of cattle...
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    to celebrate kingship. For example, at the Precinct of Amun-Re at Karnak, Thutmose III (r. 1479–1425 BC) of the Eighteenth dynasty erected a stela commemorating...
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    Necho I (category Pharaohs of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt)
    who sent his daughter to the Precinct of Amun-Re in Karnak, thus marking the beginning of the Saite influence in the city of Thebes. Necho I is primarily...
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  • Thumbnail for Great Hypostyle Hall
    located within the Karnak Temple Complex, in the Precinct of Amon-Re. It is one of the most visited monuments of Ancient Egypt. The structure was built around...
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