Karnak: Evolution of a Temple

by Blyth; Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780415404877
• ISBN10: 0415404878
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-12-04
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The temple of Amuh-Re at Karnak is arguably the largest and most complex religious site of the ancient world. Yet despite this, there is no single publication in the English Language which deals with its historical development from the early shrine of ah obscure local deity to the greatest state temple of ancient Egypt's mighty empire over the course of two millennia. Karnak endeavours to fill this gap, describing in detail the contribution of each pharaoh in turn through the centuries until the temple's final closure in the Christian era, over two thousand years later.

Author Biography

Elizabeth BIyth, formerly of the Department of Egyptology, University College of London

Table of Contents

List of Plates	p. ix
List of Figures	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Foreword	p. xvii
Chronology	p. xxiii
Introduction	p. 1
The Early Temple	p. 5
Origins	p. 7
The Middle Kingdom	p. 10
The Second Intermediate Period	p. 27
The New Kingdom	p. 31
Amenhotep I, Tuthmosis I and Tuthmosis II	p. 33
Hatshepsut	p. 51
Tuthmosis III	p. 68
Amenhotep II and Tuthmosis IV	p. 93
Amenhotep III and the Processional Ways	p. 104
Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten), Tutankhamun and Ay	p. 119
Horemheb	p. 133
Ramesses I and Seti I	p. 143
Ramesses II to the End of Dynasty XIX	p. 155
Ramesses III and Dynasty XX	p. 171
The Late Period	p. 185
Dynasty XXI, Dynasties XXII-XXIV (Libyan Period) and Dynasty XXV (Nubian Period)	p. 187
Dynasties XXVI-XXX	p. 209
The Final Phase	p. 225
Conclusion	p. 236
Bibliography	p. 238
Index	p. 247
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