The Other Temples on the West Bank at Thebes, Egypt, Part II
Temple of Ramesses IV
Via modern highways, ranging from the temple of Amenhotep III is a small temple built by Ramses IV. Is located right behind the Office of the Inspector of Antiquities. Unfortunately, there is almost nothing of the small temple.
Temple of Amenhotep Hapu
Perhaps one of the best small temples in the region is that it is not an officer of the Royal Court, the high lived in the reign of Amenhotep III. He was also named Amenhotep (or Amenhotep, Greek), and was responsible for building the mortuary temple of the great king, and other construction projects, including the Soleb in Lower Nubia.
Are given the honor of his funerary temple, no doubt reflecting the high level they were before Amenhotep III. Low granted favors of this kind. Funerary temple is located directly behind and slightly to the west of the mortuary temple of the king.
While the mortuary temple of Amenhotep "may be small in comparison with Amenhotep III was well designed with the construction of magnificent temples and is the largest sector in the West Bank, is as great as, for example, the Temple of Tuthmosis III at Qurna, in fact, was greater than so much and then at a nearby temple of Tuthmosis II.
This interface of the pillars of the temple was great that is accessed by a large tree-lined court basin surrounded by a portico with columns. On the back of the court was a second set of towers associated with the area inside the temple. This section of the temple was in the court of the columns with very small cameras, arranged in almost perfect symmetry.
Worship of this senior officer, many communities remain in power. Certificate in strain on the 21st of this temple shows that the doctrine was thriving after 300 years. In fact, not only was worshiped in this temple, but also the shrines in the temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, and the Ptolemaic (Greek) temple of Hathor at Deir el-Medina. It seems, was officially deified at the time of Ptolemy, so that your worship may have lasted a very long time.
Notwithstanding the importance of this temple in the region, unfortunately, like most temples in this area remains very weak, just to stay alive.
The Temple of Tuthmosis II
Particularly sensitive destroyed the temple next to the more common, the son of Amenhotep of the Arab Parliamentary Union, and the Temple of Tuthmosis II, and measures only tens of meters. Was called "Shespet - Ankh", or Chapel of life. The temple was completed, Tuthmosis III, the son of Tuthmosis II.
The Temple of Horemheb and Abdel-Monem Youssef
Horemheb AY and sometimes seems to serve as a kind of a couple of curiosity at the end of 18th dynasty after a reign of Tutankhamen, the young man. Spent connected to the first, bearing not only on the throne of Tutankhamun, but also to his wife of legitimacy, and was followed on the throne by Horemheb. As befits the husband, Abdel-Monem Youssef built a mortuary temple at the southern end of the line of royal temples of worship on the hills overlooking the west of Thebes, but shortly after his death Horemheb took. In fact, Abdel-Monem Youssef built inside the temple, and Horemheb abroad. When finished, the spirit of loving the name of Abdel-Monem Youssef, delete the section of the basest and angry all of the temple as theirs.
The temple of the three towers, each one leading to the courts, with minors in court three. There was a large covered patio, and a series of halls and chambers of the columns before entering the campus. Structure is on a slope that rises in the back of the car, and the basic structure built of sandstone, while the surrounding areas or in the open air were made of mud brick. The bulk of the structure is symmetrical, with the exception of minors in court a number of annexes III and storage on the left (west) section of the inner temple.
North Temple
The construction of this temple, known as the Temple of North Nag Kom Lolah is unknown, although it was built in part on the same site as the Temple of Ramses IV. It's small, and destroyed, but the structure contains all the architectural elements of the classic local temples. Sanctuary was three, and otherwise very similar to the structure just to the south.
South Temple
Nag temple in the southern Kom Lolah is a few meters to the south of the Temple of Tuthmosis II, and very similar to the "North Temple. But here, in rooms haven is aligned horizontally. While the level of this small temple is well known, nothing remains There are a lot of structure today.