The Temple Of Karnak Floor Plan

They were made by dividing the walls of the pylon into an imaginary grid then taking overlapping photos along the grid framework.

The temple of karnak floor plan.

Lepsius projekt tw 1 2 074 jpg 1 605 2 122. The former accommodated the images of deities the recipients of the daily cult. Floor plans of karnak temple complex 1 c 15 f l floor plans of luxor temple 10 f p floor plans of philae 14 f r floor plans of ramesseum 13 f media in category floor plans of ancient egyptian temples the following 54 files are in this category out of 54 total. The karnak temple complex commonly known as karnak ˈ k ɑːr.

The center of the temple of amun ra at karnak extends from 4. Its architectural floor plan in conjunction with the arrangement of its furnishings reveals a temple man composed of three biblical figures. Karnak is located in the city of thebes and is over a mile from the city s center and the temple of luxor. Above the central district.

N æ k from arabic khurnak meaning fortified village comprises a vast mix of decayed temples chapels pylons and other buildings near luxor in egypt construction at the complex began during the reign of senusret i in the middle kingdom around 2000 1700 bc and continued into the ptolemaic period 305 30 bc. Over the years i ve got to know luxor temple quite well and on my 2005 visit i d already planed how to photograph it before traveling to egypt. Karnak village located in al uqsur muhafazah governorate upper egypt which has given its name to the northern half of the ruins of thebes on the east bank of the nile river including the ruins of the great temple of amon which itself included a number of other notable small shrines and temples. The mortuary temples of the pharaohs and the valleys of the kings and queens are on the nile s west bank across from thebes.

The latter were the shrines for the funerary cults of dead kings. Egyptian art and architecture egyptian art and architecture temple architecture. Two principal kinds of temple can be distinguished cult temples and funerary or mortuary temples. My wife and i took over 400 detail photos of the pylon.

Media in category floor plans of karnak temple complex the following 15 files are in this category out of 15 total. The levitical high priest jacob and a metallic messiah. A plan of the temple of amun and other temples at karnak thebes. The greatest secret of king solomon s temple is that it may have been constructed in the hidden form of a human body.