Entrance to the Temple of Khonsu (Gateway of Ptolemy III)
The Temple of Khonsu is an ancient Egyptian temple. It is located within the large Precinct of Amun-Re at Karnak, in Luxor, Egypt.[1] The edifice is an example of an almost complete New Kingdom temple, and was originally constructed by Ramesses III on the site of an earlier temple.[2] The gateway of this temple is at the end of the avenue of sphinxes that ran to the Luxor Temple. In Ptolemaic times, Ptolemy III Euergetes constructed a great gateway and enclosure wall for the temple; only the gateway now remains (see below). Inscriptions inside the forecourt of the temple were made in the time of Herihor.
The hypostyle hall was erected by Nectanebo I and is not of great size; inside were found two baboons that appear to have been carved in the time of Seti I. It probably belonged to the earlier building on the site.
Numerous blocks with unmatched and inverted decorations can be seen, showing the amount of reconstruction and reuse of material from the surrounding temple complexes, especially in Ptolemaic times.
From 2006 to 2018, the American Research Center in Egypt performed conservation work.[3]
^"Khonsu Temple | American Research Center In Egypt". www.arce.org. Retrieved 2022-02-04.
The TempleofKhonsu is an ancient Egyptian temple. It is located within the large Precinct of Amun-Re at Karnak, in Luxor, Egypt. The edifice is an example...
Bas-relief ofKhonsu (left) at the mortuary templeof Ramesses III Relief representing Khonsu in the TempleofKhonsu, Karnak, 20th Dynasty Khonsu behind...
their son Khonsu. The focus of the annual Opet Festival, in which a cult statue of Amun was paraded down the Nile from nearby Karnak Temple (ipet-sut)...
of the king's program included the extensive enlargement of his father's TempleofKhonsu at Karnak and the construction of a large mortuary temple near...
"Preliminary Report on the Work of the Epigraphic Survey in the TempleofKhonsu at Karnak, 2008-2009". Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt...
Tutankhamun. Ramesses III at the templeofKhonsu. Sema tawy (without deities) on the side of the throne of Khafre History of ancient Egypt Narmer Two Ladies...
positioned on the masthead of sacred boats used during the Opet Festival. Reliefs showing those boats are found in the TempleofKhonsu at Karnak and date to...
by Karl Richard Lepsius of a scene in the TempleofKhonsu. It is now believed that the partly preserved name of the son of Herihor depicted there was...
] — Kadesh inscriptions The Temple complex of Montu in Medamud, the ancient Medu, less than five kilometers north-east of today's Luxor, was built by...
Egyptian temples were built for the official worship of the gods and in commemoration of the pharaohs in ancient Egypt and regions under Egyptian control...
III in the TempleofKhonsu. It is thought likely that Tentopet and Queen Duatentopet were the same person, and that she was a daughter of Ramesses III...
the decorations from the TempleofKhonsu at Karnak where Herihor's wall reliefs here are immediately followed by those of Pinedjem I with no intervening...
368 men, of which some 2,000 were soldiers. Ramesses expanded his father's TempleofKhonsu at Karnak and possibly began his own mortuary temple at a site...
be the mother of everything in the world, she was particularly associated as the mother of the lunar child god Khonsu. At the Templeof Karnak in Egypt's...
reconstruction of the TempleofKhonsu at Karnak from the foundations of an earlier templeof Amenhotep III and completed the Templeof Medinet Habu around...
Hathor), together with the gods Horus, Khnum, Khonsu, and Thoth, and the goddesses Hathor, Isis, Maat, Mut of Asher, Satis and Taweret; in one scene Ramesses...
some temple archive, most probably during the chaotic period of the suppression of the High Priest of Amun Amenhotep); the Turin Taxation Papyrus, of an...
to Amun flanked by those of Mut and Khonsu. The last rulers of this dynasty added little to the temple complex. As the power of the Egyptian Empire declined...
of gods. The southern half of the temple was dedicated to the crocodile god Sobek, god of fertility and creator of the world with Hathor and Khonsu....
into a year 12. In the Hypostyle Hall of the TempleofKhonsu, there are ample depictions of Herihor as High Priest of Amun, serving under Ramesses XI. It...
Sanctuary of KhonsuTemple depicting Rameses III wearing a nemes Ushabti of Ramses IV with a nemes, c. 1143 – c. 1136 BCE Statue at Abu Simbel of Ramesses...
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