Great Temple of Amon | temple complex, Karnak, Egypt | Britannica (original) (raw)

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construction by

• Thutmose I
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    In Thutmose I
    1760 bce) temple of Amon at Thebes. He erected an enclosure wall and two pylons at the western end, with a small pillared hall in between. Two obelisks were added in front of the outer pylon. Thutmose created the axial temple, which became standard for the New…
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• Thutmose III
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    In Thutmose III: Military campaigns
    …temple of the state god, Amon.
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history of

• Karnak
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    In Karnak
    Within the enclosure of the Great Temple of Amon are included a number of other notable small shrines and temples. A temple to Ptah, in the north side of the enclosure, was built by Hatshepsut and Thutmose III and added to by the Ptolemies, who also embellished the Great Temple…
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• Luxor
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    In Luxor: The ancient ruins
    …sphinxes connected it to the Great Temple of Amon at Karnak. The modern name Luxor (Arabic: Al-Uqṣur) means “The Palaces” or perhaps “The Forts,” from the Roman castra.
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use of

• clerestory
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    In clerestory
    …and Ramses II at the Temple of Amon (1349–1197 bc, Karnak, Egypt), in which the central range of columns, higher than those on either side, permitted clerestories to be built of pierced stone slabs.
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• stone
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    In construction: Stone construction in Egypt
    …(80 feet) in the great temple of Amon-Re at Karnak. But stone lintels spanning between columns are limited by the tension they develop on their bottom surfaces; their maximum span is perhaps 5 metres (16 feet). Thus, for longer spans, another structural form was needed to exploit the higher compressive…
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