(16th century BC), Amun acquired national importance, expressed in his fusion with the Sun god, Ra, as Amun-Ra (alternatively spelled Amon-Ra or Amun-Re). On his...
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The Precinct of Amun-Re, located near Luxor, Egypt, is one of the four main temple enclosures that make up the immense Karnak Temple Complex. The precinct...
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Karnak (section Precinct of Amun-Re)
small, eight-sided column from the Eleventh Dynasty, which mentions Amun-Re. Amun (sometimes called Amen) was long the local tutelary deity of Thebes...
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complex. They came under scrutiny in the early 1990s, after they built Tama-Re, an Egyptian-themed park compound for about a hundred of his followers in...
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Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut (section Amun shrine)
functions: its central east-west axis served to receive the barque of Amun-Re at the climax of the festival, while its north-south axis represented the...
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Amun-Re is a game designed by Reiner Knizia and first published in 2003 by Hans im Glück in German and in English by Rio Grande Games. Players are leaders...
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Opet Festival (category Amun)
the Fertility of Amun-Re and the Pharaoh, who was believed to be the spiritual offspring of Amun-Re – the son or daughter of Amun-Re. John Coleman Darnell...
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column from the Eleventh Dynasty, which mentions Amun-Re. The tomb of Intef II mentions a 'house of Amun', which implies some structure, whether a shrine...
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rock stela depicting Ramesses V before Amun-Re, Mut, Khons and Sobek. Ramesses III is shown offering Maat to Amun-Re, Mut and Khons. From a much later time...
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sources—primarily the hieroglyphic writings on the Hall of Annals in the Temple of Amun-Re at Karnak, Thebes (now Luxor), by the military scribe Tjaneni. The ancient...
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North-west chapel to Amun in the upper terrace of Deir el-Bahri. The name refers to hypostyle architectural pattern. Dedicated to Amun-Re, the highest deity...
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capital of Upper Egypt during the New Kingdom, and the city of Amun, later to become the god Amun-Ra. The city was regarded in the ancient Egyptian texts as...
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located within the large Precinct of Amun-Re at Karnak, in Luxor, Egypt. It lies to the north of the main Amun temple, just within the boundary wall...
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God's Wife of Amun (Egyptian: ḥm.t nṯr n ỉmn) was the highest-ranking priestess of the Amun cult, an important religious institution in ancient Egypt...
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des Jahres and the Deutscher Spiele Preis. His notable designs include Amun-Re, Blue Moon City, Ingenious, Keltis, Lord of the Rings, Medici, Modern Art...
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Amun in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Amun (Amun-Ra, Amon, Ammon, Amen, Amoun, or Hammon) is an Egyptian god. Amun may also refer to: Saint Amun,...
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Ra (redirect from Re-Harakhti)
of the Two Horizons". When the god Amun rose to prominence during Egypt's New Kingdom, he was fused with Ra as Amun-Ra. The cult of the Mnevis bull, an...
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facade – showing Ramesses III leading three lines of captive Sea Peoples to Amun-Re, lord of Thebes (and of the empire), and his consort Mut. Displayed on...
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there for a while with his consort Mut, was to promote the fertility of Amun-Re and the Pharaoh. However, other studies at the temple by the Epigraphic...
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"Image of the transformations of Re" in Egyptian. Psusennes II is often considered the same person as the High-Priest of Amun known as Psusennes III. The Egyptologist...
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carefully aligned towards the pole star,[citation needed] and the temple of Amun-Re at Karnak was aligned on the rising of the midwinter Sun.[citation needed]...
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formed part of a family triad (the "Theban Triad") with Mut as his mother and Amun his father. Khonsu's name means 'traveller' and therefore reflects the fact...
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campaign he split his army into two forces. One force was led by his son, Amun-her-khepeshef, and it chased warriors of the Šhasu tribes across the Negev...
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the 24th Olympic Games. 684 BC—Taharqa gives orders to build a temple to Amun-Re at Kawa 680 BC—Esarhaddon succeeds Sennacherib as king of Assyria. 680...
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2012, French archeologists examining a limestone door in the Precinct of Amun-Re at Karnak discovered hieroglyphs with the name Senakhtenre, the first evidence...
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belonging to Ramesses II in Thebes: the Ramesseum and the Precinct of Amun-Re at the Temple of Karnak. The scribes who engraved the Egyptian version...
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to confront the Egyptians. Ramesses led an army of four divisions: Amun, Re (pRe), Set, and the apparently newly-formed Ptah division. There was also...
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Carved relief of the cartouche representing Thutmose III on the wall of the Precinct of Amun-Re, Karnak...
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Akhenaten (redirect from Amun-hotpe IV)
reign, he was known as Amenhotep IV (Ancient Egyptian: jmn-ḥtp, meaning "Amun is satisfied", Hellenized as Amenophis IV). As a pharaoh, Akhenaten is noted...
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