The Open Air Museum is located across from the Great
Court, opposite to the entrance to Ramesses III's temple
in the Temple
of Amun.. It is accessed to the left of the first
courtyard just before the Second Pylon at Karnak
in modern Luxor
(ancient Thebes)
It has a collection of monuments that
were discovered elsewhere at Karnak, particularly inside the
Second and Third Pylons.
We can find blocks from the beautiful Red
Chapel of Hatshepsut, which have only recently been reconstructed into an actual structure. That Chapel served as a shrine for the baroque of Amun.
We can also see the remains of the splendid White Chapel of
Senwosret
I, the oldest monument at Karnak. The scenes carved on the stones show the
king offering to his mighty god Amun- Re and Amun in his ithyphallic form. The ancient administrative areas of Egypt are listed in the form of columns on the parapet. The entire region of Egypt is represented on the chapel of the Pharaoh who is the guarantor of the order established by
Amun.
The Alabaster Chapel of Amenhotep I is located north of the museum. It is considered the oldest shrine for
the Barque. Inside, the king is shown presenting offerings to the sacred barque.
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| Title |
Author |
Date |
Publisher |
Reference Number |
|
Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt, The |
Wilkinson, Richard H. |
2000 |
Thames and Hudson, Ltd |
ISBN 0-500-05100-3 |
|
History of Egyptian Architecture, A (The Empire (the New Kingdom) From the Eighteenth Dynasty to the End of the Twentieth Dynasty 1580-1085 B.C. |
Badawy, Alexander |
1968 |
University of California Press |
LCCC A5-4746 |
|
Luxor, Karnak and the Theban Temples |
Siliotti, Alberto |
2002 |
American University In Cairo Press, The |
ISBN 977 424 641 1 |
|
Temples of Karnak, The |
de Lubicz, R. A. Schwaller |
1999 |
Inner Tradition |
ISBN 0-89281-712-7 |
|
Thebes
in Egypt: A Guide to the Tombs and Temples of Ancient Luxor |
Strudwick, Nigel & Helen |
1999 |
Cornell University Press |
ISBN 0 8014 8616 5 |
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