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Amenhotep III had positioned the mortuary temple in front of the floodplain of the Nile in an effort to fill a lake in front of the Colossi. Furthermore, this lake acted as a water retention reservoir and prevented the temple from flooding completely during high inundations.
Amenhotep III (Ancient Egyptian: jmn-ḥtp(.w) Amānəḥūtpū, IPA: [ʔaˌmaːnəʔˈħutpu]; [4] [5] "Amun is satisfied" [6]), also known as Amenhotep the Magnificent or Amenhotep the Great and Hellenized as Amenophis III, was the ninth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty.
Colossal statue of Amenhotep III and his wife Queen Tiye, Egyptian Museum, Cairo Tiye bust. Her husband devoted a number of shrines to her and constructed a temple dedicated to her in Sedeinga in Nubia where she was worshipped as a form of the goddess Hathor-Tefnut. [10] He also had an artificial lake built for her in his Year 12. [11]
'the place where (ancient) things are picked up') [1], is the site of an Ancient Egyptian palace complex built during the New Kingdom, by the 18th Dynasty pharaoh Amenhotep III. It is located on the West Bank of the Nile at Thebes, Upper Egypt, in the desert to the south of Medinet Habu.
According to Lythgoe, Amenhotep III, commissioned the many statues to be built as a "forest". [4] Amenhotep III described Sekhmet as the terrible, mighty goddess of war and strife and her origins came from the earlier Memphite triad as the mother-goddess, and she eventually became recognized with the local Theban deity, Mut.
The statue is made of limestone, its width is 4,4 m, its height is 7 m.The almond shaped eyes and curved eyebrows of the figures are of typical late 18th dynasty style. Amenhotep III wears the nemes headdress with uraeus, a false beard and a kilt; he is resting his hands on his kne
The letter contains matters concerning the marriage of Tadukhipa to Amenhotep III, mentions of her dowry, with references to previous letters listing items given to Tadukhipa as dowry, references to building good political relations between Egypt and Mitanni, information about the exchange of envoys along with their names – the Egyptian Mane ...
It is also known as the birthplace of Amenhotep, son of Hapu, [8] who gained considerable recognition and prestige in his time as a public official, architect, and scribe for pharaoh Amenhotep III. The former Amenhotep leveraged his influence to convince the pharaoh to patron the town and its local god. [9] A local temple was rebuilt by ...