The Amada Temple in Nubia

The Temple of Amada in Nubia, though small in size, but some of the important historical writings and it is also important as the oldest temples of Lake Nasser. For example, the trail carved on the back wall of the sanctuary in the third year of Amenhotep II describes the Egyptian military campaign in Asia, bringing the bodies of the rebel leaders to hang on the walls of a pretty good one in the bow of his ship sailing through Nubia as a warning. Another, carved on the obelisk on the north side of the entrance to describe the invasion of Egypt, Libya in the fourth year of Merneptah, son of Ramses II.
This temple is located about 180 km south of the dam, and was devoted to the gods of the major New Kingdom, Amun-Re, re Horakhty. Originally ordered by his son, Tuthmosis III and Amenhotep II in the Kingdom of a new strain of Egypt 18th. Hall was in addition to the columns in the later Tuthmosis IV. Seti I had a hand in some small additions such as the tower with a large section of sandstone against the adjacent hall of columns, side by side with other rulers of the 19th dynasty, including his son, Ramses II, who seems to have been involved in some way with each side almost Nubian temple built before his reign. However, restoration of the temple of Ramses II has been described as too little, and perhaps the recruitment and use of the skill of local artists less. Of course, Ramses II, and added a number of private temples in the landscape of Nubia during the period of his rule.
    By the rising waters of Lake Nasser after the construction of the Aswan High Dam, the temple was moved, along with the nearby temple of Derr, superior to a new location about 2.5 kilometers from their place of origin between 1964 and 1975.
Temple, which retains much of its work to help with multi-color decoration consists of a courtyard with a brick wall, with the formation of Proto Doric columns of the back porch. Thutmose IV extended the transformation of the court in the hall of columns by building twelve rows and four columns of the cross in front of the four columns, the walls of the columns between the columns of Foreign Affairs. The temple itself, built in sandstone, and contains a cross on the roof of hall decorated with scenes of the coronation, and a hall for the presentations deeply connected on each side of a small shrine to the cult statue re Horakhty (south) and Amun-Re (north).
And inscriptions painted in the temple is very interesting, especially in the section that, at a record high dedicated to Thutmose III, we find the worship of Amun-Re, and then coordinated a record low for similar motives, where the worship of Amenhotep II on the subject of re-Horakhty symbolic itself. Unfortunately, Tuthmosis IV, known as the King a heretic, Akhenaten, who broke away from tradition in its attempts to strengthen the Aten, had eroded the representation of Amun. These are photos that have been restored Ramses II, but with less manpower. Moreover, and many other temples of Nubia, the early Christians made the structure of the church dome, and in the process, contributed to the damage suffered for. Moreover, when these same Christians stuck on many of the inscriptions, which, in fact, many of them preserved, making these some of the descriptions that are the best in any Nubian temple.


Beyond the original sculptures, there are some writings on the walls, interesting, apparently recorded in the strain of 19th, which included scenes from the Viceroy of Nubia, Messuy, which appeared to show the true cobra added before the governor. Other, more pronounced in recent times on the walls at the top and front of the temple is a crude representations of beauty, however, after the work of nomads and travelers in the Middle Ages.