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« La paroi sud de la salle des Annales de Thoutmosis III à Karnak : reconstitution architecturale et restitution épigraphique », L. Gabolde (éd.), Hommages égyptologiques à Paul Barguet, Kyphi 7, Khéops, 2015, p. 44-110
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The Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak, as now visited by thousands of tourists, is the largest religious sanctuary still preserved in Egypt. Yet our knowledge of its origin and its development is still very patchy, despite two centuries of French archaeological research. In 2002, fortuitous mud-brick remains exhumed during the study of the foundations of New Kingdom constructions has revived the debate about its origin. This was the start of a large-scale geomorphological and archaeological operation conducted by a multidisciplinary research team. Courtyards of the fourth, fifth and sixth pylons, the so-called "courtyard of the Middle Kingdom", neighboring aisles, and Thutmose III’s Akhmenou have been the focus of soundings to recover mud-brick construction and lower sedimentation levels. The results suggest that the first religious complex at Karnak was built on a hill and it gradually developed to the west. It was also determined that the first temple certainly dates back from the eleventh dynasty (ca. 2160-1991 BC) and cannot be earlier. The Temple of the New Kingdom, as we now see it, was present in almost identical proportions during the Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediate Period. This earlier religious complex, of which there remain only minor leveling courses of mud-brick, was most likely one of the largest sanctuaries in Egypt in the first half of the second millennium BC.
BiGen 74, 2023
The “Northern Storerooms” of Thutmosis III are a set of eight chambers accessible through the corridor within the sandstone enclosure of the Temple of Amun-Re at Karnak. Built by Thutmosis III during his autonomous reign after the death of Queen Hatshepsut, these chambers form a complex with restricted access that underwent several architectural transformations. Among the most remarkable are the modification of its western entrance during Thutmosis III’s own reign and the decoration of one of the chambers by Ptolemy IX Soter II, nearly fourteen centuries after its construction. This complex maintains close connections with other structures from the reign of Thutmosis III, including the Akh-menu, the new cultic center of the Temple of Amun-Re, as well as the access areas and the central part of the Karnak Temple. This volume presents, for the first time, all of the epigraphic material, largely unpublished, from this sector (including facsimiles, hieroglyphic texts, and translations), along with complete photographic coverage, undertaken after the completion of a major restoration and conservation programme in 2016. Les « Magasins nord » de Thoutmosis III sont un ensemble de huit salles accessibles par le couloir périmétral de l’enceinte en grès du temple d’Amon-Rê à Karnak. Bâties par Thoutmosis III pendant son règne autonome après la disparition de la reine Hatchepsout, ces salles forment un complexe à l’accès restreint qui a subi plusieurs transformations architecturales dont les plus remarquables sont la modification de son accès ouest au cours du règne même de Thoutmosis III et la décoration d’une des salles du complexe par Ptolémée IX Sôter II près de quatorze siècles après sa construction. Cet ensemble entretient des liens étroits avec les autres structures du règne de Thoutmosis III dont l’Akh-menou, nouveau cœur cultuel du temple d’Amon-Rê, mais aussi avec les zones d’accès et le centre du temple de Karnak. Ce volume livre pour la première fois l’ensemble de la matière épigraphique, en grande partie inédite, de ce secteur (fac-similés, textes hiéroglyphiques en ligne et traduction commentée) ainsi qu’une couverture photographique complète, réalisée après l’achèvement, en 2016, d’un important programme de restauration et de conservation.
« Karnak sous le règne de Sésostris Ier », revue Égypte, Afrique et Orient, n° 16, janvier-février 2000, p. 13-24.
Quelques blocs ptolémaïques inédits de la cour du IXe pylône du domaine d’Amon à Karnak
Études et travaux 33 (2020), 2020
This publication unveils a set of 15 fragmented sandstone blocks currently located in the courtyard of the IXth Pylon of the temple of Amun in Karnak. The study of these inscriptions allows to identify some elements of the offering scenes decorating a number of registers of a monumental doorway dating from the reign of Ptolemy III Evergetes. The exact location inside the Karnak complex of the building to which this door belonged remains still uncertain.
The monument known as Philip Arrhidaeus’ bark-shrine is the granite chapel built in the central area of the Temple of Amun-Re in Karnak. As a permanent resting place for the divine bark, it is located at the same place as the bark-shrine of Thutmose III, inserted into the complex of the “Palace of Maat” built during the reign of Hatshepsut. Cleared and partially rebuilt by Georges Legrain at the beginning of the 20th century, the chapel was restored and its colors fixed during work undertaken by the CFEETK in 1992-1993. With the resumption of the epigraphic and photographic survey programme (2010-2017), the long-awaited publication of this emblematic monument built in the heart of Ipet-sut can now be proposed. Le monument connu sous le nom de chapelle-reposoir de Philippe Arrhidée est l’édifice en granite bâti dans la zone centrale du temple d’Amon-Rê à Karnak. Reposoir permanent de la barque divine, il occupe le même emplacement que la chapelle-reposoir de Thoutmosis III, insérée dans le complexe du « Palais de Maât » construit sous le règne d’Hatchepsout. Dégagée des blocs effondrés et partiellement reconstruite par Georges Legrain au début du XXe siècle, la chapelle a été restaurée et sa polychromie fixée lors de travaux entrepris par le CFEETK en 1992-1993. Avec la reprise du programme de relevés épigraphiques et photographiques (2010-2017), la publication longtemps retardée de cet emblématique monument construit au cœur d’Ipet-sout peut désormais être proposée.
« De la soi-disant “arche” en granit de Thoutmosis III à Karnak », GM 223, 2009, p. 43-52
The recently postulated granit « arch » of Thutmosis III before the VI th pylon at Karnak may have never existed. An architectural detail reveals that the central sandstone gate with its caveto cornice either preexited, either was contemporary to the granit massonnery which surrounds it. So there was never any free standing granit « arch », but a much more classical one-tower pylon with its gate. Few extra observations give complementary informations on the monument.