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This quantity provides a chain of papers introduced at a two-day consultation of the Theban Workshop held on the British Museum in September 2003. because of its political and non secular prominence all through a lot of pharaonic historical past, the sector of old Thebes bargains students a wealth of monuments whose actual is still and extant iconography might be mixed with textual assets and archaeological reveals in ways in which elucidate the functionality of sacred area as at the beginning conceived, and which additionally demonstrate diversifications to human want or shifts in cultural belief. The contributions herein deal with concerns comparable to the architectural framing of non secular rite, the implicit performative responses of officiants, the diachronic research of particular rites, the difference of sacred area to assorted makes use of via actual, representational, or textual alteration, and the advance of formality landscapes in historic Thebes.
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It covered an area of almost 40 ≈ 40 m,30 roughly 28 Vernus (1987, 166) proposes a date at the beginning of the Twelfth Dynasty. After a review of stelae of the late Eleventh Dynasty through the early Twelfth Dynasty, I would also not exclude a date toward the end of the Eleventh Dynasty. For a recent discussion of the problems of the dating of objects from this period based on palaeographic and epigraphic distinctions, see Spanel 1996; compare also Freed 1996. 29 For the distinction between a permanently installed cult statue of Amun and a processional cult image of the god, see Kruchten 1989, 245–67.
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The whole decoration of the antechamber converges toward the monumental door leading to the sanctuary. 13 m), probably for a piece of now-vanished temple furniture (Beaux 1990, 18; Carlotti 2001, 127–28). wt-columns aligned along the east–west axis. Between each outer pair of columns Auguste Mariette found in 1861 a sizeable royal sphinx of Thutmose III, now in front of the Cairo Museum (Laboury 1998, 179–83). These two sphinxes were discovered in situ,7 facing northward, that is, facing the sanctuary, a rather unusual position for that kind of sculpture.