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The Deir Al -Shilouet Temple

The Deir Al -Shilouet Temple

It was built by Ramses II during the reign of the XIX dynasty. The privileged location of the temple is probably because the river, as it approaches the Kursk bend, runs in an 'unnatural' direction towards the southeast. It was dedicated to the god Ra-horakhti. Scientists disagreed about the date of construction of the temple: the French Egyptologist Nicolas Grimal puts the date in the thirteenth year of the reign of Ramses II, assuming that this coincided with the first jubilee of his sitting on the throne. On the other hand, John Binns and Jaromir Malik consider that the temple of Al-Durr was "built in the second part of the King's reign," perhaps because "the shape of the structure and its inscriptions are similar to the Great Temple at Abu Simbel (without the huge statues sitting in its facade).", And Abu Simbel was built between the years 24 and 31 of the reign of Ramses

Architecture and decorations.

The temple in 1960. Bas-relief of Ramses II in the temple of the monastery foyer with an edifice) and from them to a triple sanctuary consisting of statues of Ramses II, Amon-Ra, Ra-horakhti, and Ptah where the worship rituals were."When the temple was restored in modern times, the brilliance and vitality of its inscriptions appeared in comparison with the inscriptions of other temples in which the "extinguishing" of the color tone of their inscriptions appeared. In 1965, the temple was dismantled and moved along with the Amada temple to a new location. The first visitors saw the temple on its old site, and the temple itself was first studied and published on it by Alward Blackman in 1913.

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Attractions close to the Temple of Hatshepsut (at Deir el-Bahari) include:

  • The Valley of the Kings
  • The Tombs of Ramses VI
  •  Ramses III

The Deir Al-Shalwit Temple, also known as the Temple of Millions of Years of Amenhotep II, is an ancient Egyptian temple located in Luxor, Egypt. It was dedicated to the Pharaoh Amenhotep II of the 18th Dynasty and served as a mortuary temple for his cult and eternal worship.

Deir Chelouit (French: Deir Chelouit) is an ancient Egyptian temple of Isis from the Greco-Roman era. It is located on the west bank of the Nile River in Luxor, 1 kilometer from Malakta, and about 4 kilometers south of the city of Habu. What currently remains of the temple is the small main building and the ruins of the entrance, along with a brick wall and a well. The temple area measures 74 x 51 meters; the temple itself is much smaller at 13 x 16 meters. Its entrance faces south. There is not much decoration on the outer walls, but inside the inscriptions are well preserved. The mausoleum is surrounded by a corridor from which side chapels and a cleansing hall are accessible; the roof is accessed by stairs from this corridor. On the south side of the outer wall, some stones from older buildings were used, because the inscriptions on these stones appear to be from the temple of Ramses III. 

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