EGYPT 831 - ABU GURAB III - (by Egyptahotep)
1.3 هزار بار بازدید -
8 سال پیش
-
ABU GURAB III (Solar Temple
ABU GURAB III (Solar Temple of Niuserre) ;
abu gurab is an archaeological site located 1km to the north of Abusir,
Several Old Kingdom rulers built their pyramid complexes at Abusir, but it became a custom during Dynasty V for pharaohs to dedicate separate temples to the sun-god Re.
Niuserre used similar elements in the construction of his sun-temple as those reconstructed from Userkaf’s solar temple (the other solar temple of abu gurab located at a few mts and today totally destroyed) and which had become common in pyramid complexes. The upper temple was on a levelled terrace, its rectangular walls first constructed in mudbrick and later encased in yellow limestone. A vestibule led into a courtyard which was dominated on its western side by a large obelisk constructed from limestone blocks and which stood on a flat-topped pyramid-shaped pedestal, around 15m high. The obelisk probably symbolized the ‘ben-ben’ stone on which the sun’s rays first shone in the Heliopolitan creation myth.
abu gurab is an archaeological site located 1km to the north of Abusir,
Several Old Kingdom rulers built their pyramid complexes at Abusir, but it became a custom during Dynasty V for pharaohs to dedicate separate temples to the sun-god Re.
Niuserre used similar elements in the construction of his sun-temple as those reconstructed from Userkaf’s solar temple (the other solar temple of abu gurab located at a few mts and today totally destroyed) and which had become common in pyramid complexes. The upper temple was on a levelled terrace, its rectangular walls first constructed in mudbrick and later encased in yellow limestone. A vestibule led into a courtyard which was dominated on its western side by a large obelisk constructed from limestone blocks and which stood on a flat-topped pyramid-shaped pedestal, around 15m high. The obelisk probably symbolized the ‘ben-ben’ stone on which the sun’s rays first shone in the Heliopolitan creation myth.
8 سال پیش
در تاریخ 1395/01/10 منتشر شده
است.
1,362
بـار بازدید شده