The Temple Of Karnak Floor Plan

Quays and processional ways link the three precincts to the nile.

The temple of karnak floor plan.

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. They were made by dividing the walls of the pylon into an imaginary grid then taking overlapping photos along the grid framework. The former accommodated the images of deities the recipients of the daily cult. Egyptian art and architecture egyptian art and architecture temple architecture.

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. The karnak temple complex commonly known as karnak ˈ k ɑːr. The greatest secret of king solomon s temple is that it may have been constructed in the hidden form of a human body. Lepsius projekt tw 1 2 074 jpg 1 605 2 122.

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. The center of the temple of amun ra at karnak extends from 4. The mortuary temples of the pharaohs and the valleys of the kings and queens are on the nile s west bank across from thebes.

Pylon eastwards to the festival hall akh menu of thutmosis iii in the floor plan above the akh menu follows directly in the east i e. Its architectural floor plan in conjunction with the arrangement of its furnishings reveals a temple man composed of three biblical figures. It is generally thought that the egyptian cult temple of the old. My wife and i took over 400 detail photos of the pylon.

The levitical high priest jacob and a metallic messiah. A plan of the temple of amun and other temples at karnak thebes. 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. Two principal kinds of temple can be distinguished cult temples and funerary or mortuary temples.