Seti II's two scorn obelisks height on a farmhouse in the past the Nile. From this perception we advent the temple of Amon between a double row of ram-headed sphinxes. These retain sun-discs on the mind and a statue of the Pharaoh between the forepaws, viewing the Sun-god as strong as a lion, as dutiful as a ram, and protective of the Pharaoh Ramses II who to be found them put forward. We must shampoo in precision that in appearance the temple from the chief we actually reverse, small from a few exceptions, the order of council.
Seti II Pylon
Ahead of time us rises the enormous acme pylon (Display 4 P.1) which dates from the Kushite Strain and which was never finish. It is 113 metres gaping, 43 metres high and 5 metres sticky. On the approach leading to the Spicy Encourage is an script (a) adhesive tape the span and longitude of the top-quality temples of the Pharaohs as think about by the group of scholars accompanying the navy of Napoleon to Egypt.
The Spicy Encourage, which was built inwards the 22nd Strain, covers the enormous region of 8,919 woo metres" On the warrant it incorporates a scorn temple built by Ramses III (page 41) and on the moved out a scorn testament built by Seti II, comprising three chambers deep to Amon (in the centre) and to Mut and Khonsu each on either array. Towards the centre of the trial is the rotten of what was just the once a two of a kind of pedestals for statues and at the rear this is a double arcade. The five columns to the moved out are human being reconstructed and the single unspoiled pole to the warrant is decorated by Psemmetikh II of the 26th Strain, who to be found his name completed that of the Kushite Taharka of the 25th Strain. It very information the name of Ptolemy IV.
On each array of the trial is a row of sphinxes. These flanked the approach bearing in mind the pylon at the hind of the trial (P.2) formed the orifice to the temple in the preeminence of Ramses II. They were separated and to be found dexterous the array stockade bearing in mind the orifice was on edge towards the Nile.
Against the inner wall of the acme pylon, at (b), are remnants of the rough slab ramps by which the stones were heaved fashionable rack. The storeroom two columns on this fantastically array of the trial (c) stream innovative out of the ordinary plan as to how the ancient Egyptians conducted their work. Because they were never finish they take that the roughly-shaped stones, very heaved fashionable rack on ramps, were twisted just the once erection and that the polishing and badge were performed from the top downwards as the slab ramps were separated stage by stage.
The grey pip Shrine of Seti II to the moved out of the trial was deep to the Karnak triad; Amon, Mut and Khonsu. The centre warm, to Amon, is the best sealed. On the stockade are two unrelated representations of the deity. Chummy the end of the right-hand wall Amon is seated in possible form with his separate headgear and with Mut and Khonsu seated at the rear him. On the left-hand wall he is depicted as a ram with the sun-disc on his mind and travelling the atmosphere in his sacred barge. The Deified Musical tones was a common issue of the gods of ancient Egypt. At Thebes, Amon had Mut and Khonsu. At Abydos, Osiris had his sister-wife Isis and their son Horus. At Memphis, Ptah had his wife Sekhmet and their son Nefertem.
