Deir El-Bahari, Memorial temple of Queen Hatshepsut

Deir El-Bahari, Memorial temple of Queen Hatshepsut

1. Complex of mortuary temples and tomb on westbank of Nile

2. Part of Thebian Necropolis

3. Constructed during 15th century BC

4. Mentuhote II, 11th Dynasty reunited Egypt at begining of Middle KIngdom

   • Built his mortuary temple on several levels at Deir el-Bahari
   • Temples has forecourt, entranerce gates, walls, terrace
   • Temple faces east- sun god
   • There is an unfinished tomb
   • Reliefs with king's achivements
   • Inner temple is cut into cliff, is a shrine
   • Had tombs for royal wives and daughters

5. Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut

   • Colonnaded
   • For her posthumous worship and to honour Amn
   • Ramps and gardains
   • Modelled of Menuotep's
   • 3 layered terraces
   • Each layer has a double colonnade of square piers
   • Relief of pharaoh's divine birth and expedition to PUnt
   • A relief of her as a man

6. Mortuary temple of Thutmose III is built here also

   • Dedicated to Amun

7. Mortuary temples

   • Temples adjacent/near royal tombs
   • Comemorate Pharaoh and for Pharaoh's cult
   • Were built seperately from tombs from New Kingdom onwarrds

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