Luxor Temple - Luxor-Tempel

The Luxor temple, Arabic:معبد الأقصر‎, Maʿbad al-Uqṣur, is an ancient Egyptian temple complex in the city center of Luxor. The temple, dedicated to the god of wind and fertility, Amun, his wife Mut and their son, the moon god Chons, was mainly built in the New Kingdom. The temple is of great importance because of two display cycles, the Opet festival in the colonnade hall and the birth hall.

background

getting there

The Luxor Temple is located in the city center of Luxor on the Corniche el-Nile. It can be reached on foot or by taxi.

Sights in the temple

Ramses ’II pylon

Court of Ramses ’II.

Station chapel of Hatshepsut

Colonnade Hall

Amenophis ’III atrium

Portico

Imperial cult room

Birth hall

Sanctuary of Alexander the Great

Southern rooms of the temple

Sights outside the temple

Sphinx avenue

Atrium Nektanebos ’I.

East side of the temple

West side of the temple

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literature

Luxor temple

• Gayet, Albert: Le temple de Louxor. Paris: Leroux, 1894, Mémoirs publiés par les membres de la Mission Archéologique Française du Caire; 15th. Separate text and blackboard tape.
• Wolf, Walther: The beautiful feast of Opet: the parade representation in the large portico of the temple of Luksor. Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1931, Publications of the Ernst von Sieglin expedition in Egypt; 5.
• Monneret de Villard, Ugo: The temple of the imperial cult at Luxor. In:Archaeologia or miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity, ISSN0261-3409, Vol.95 = 2nd ser. Vol. 45 (1953), Pp. 85-105.
• Helck, Wolfgang: Documents from ancient Egypt: Section 4: documents from the 18th dynasty; Translation for issues 17-22. Berlin: Academy Publishing House, 1961, Pp. 211-228, pp. 328-331 (Stele des Ḥrj and des Śwtj).
• Habachi, Labib: The triple shrine of the Theban triad in Luxor temple. In:Communications from the German Archaeological Institute, Cairo Department (MDAIK), ISSN0342-1279, Vol.20 (1965), Pp. 93-97.
• Brunner, Hellmut; Dittmar, Johanna; Brunner-Traut, Emma: The southern rooms of the Temple of Luxor. Mainz: from Zabern, 1977, Archaeological publications; 18th, ISBN 978-3-8053-0047-6 .
• Deckers, Johannes G.: The wall paintings in the imperial cult room of Luxor. In:Yearbook of the German Archaeological Institute (JDI), ISSN0070-4415, Vol.94 (1979), Pp. 600-652.
• Abd El-Raziq, Mahmud: The representations and texts of the sanctuary of Alexander the great in the temple of Luxor. Mainz: from Zabern, 1984, Archaeological publications; 16, ISBN 978-3-8053-0045-2 .
• Abdel-Raziq, Mahmud: The sanctuary of Amenhotep III. in the Luxor temple. Tokyo: Waseda Univ., 1986, Studies in Egyptian culture; 3.
• Strauss-Seeber, Christine: To the statue program Ramses ’II. In the Luxor temple. In:Helck, Wolfgang (Ed.): Temple and cult. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1987, Egyptological treatises; 46, ISBN 978-3-447-02693-2 , Pp. 24-42.
• Epigraphic Survey, Chicago, Ill.: The festival procession of Opet in the colonnade hall: with translations of texts, commentary, and glossary. Chicago, Ill.: Oriental Inst. Of the Univ. of Chicago, 1994, Oriental Institute publications / University of Chicago; 112, ISBN 978-0-918986-94-8 .
• El-Saghir, Mohammed: The statue hiding in the Luxor Temple. Mainz: from Zabern, 1992, Zabern's illustrated books on archeology; 6th, ISBN 978-3-8053-1259-2 .
• Epigraphic Survey, Chicago, Ill.: The facade, portals, upper register scenes, columns, marginalia, and statuary in the colonnade hall. Chicago, Ill.: Oriental Inst. Of the Univ. of Chicago, 1998, Oriental Institute publications / University of Chicago; 116, ISBN 978-1-885923-11-0 .
• Jones, Michael; McFadden, Susanna (Ed.): Art of empire: the roman frescoes and imperial cult chamber in Luxor temple. New Haven [et al.]: Yale University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-300-16912-6 .

Roman army camp

• Saghir, Mohammed el-: Le camp romain de Louqsor: (avec une étude des graffites gréco-romains du temple d’Amon). Paris: Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, 1986, Mémoires / Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale du Caire; 83, ISBN 978-2-7247-0033-6 .

Churches

• Abdul Qader, M.: Preliminary Report on the Excavations Carried out in the Temple of Luxor, Seasons 1958-1959, 1959-1960. In:Annales du Service des Antiquités de l’Egypte (ASAE), ISSN1687-1510, Vol.60 (1968), Pp. 227-279.
• Grossmann, P.: A forgotten early Christian church at the Luxor Temple. In:Communications from the German Archaeological Institute, Cairo Department (MDAIK), ISSN0342-1279, Vol.29 (1973), Pp. 167–181, ill. Between pp. 168 and 169.
• Krause, M.: To the silver treasure of Luxor. In:Boreas: Munster contributions to archeology, ISSN0344-810X, Vol.17 (1994), Pp. 149-157. Also under the title: Jordan-Ruwe, M. (ed.): Visual and formal language of late antique art: Hugo Brandenburg on his 65th birthday.