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Temples

The Temple of Luxor - The Colonnade of Amenhotep III

The Colonnade of Amenhotep III

The Colonnade of Amenhotep III has seven pairs of 52 foot (16m) high open-flower papyrus columns, which still support their huge architrave blocks.

The Colonnade of Amenhotep III

The reliefs on the walls of the hall bear the names of Tutankhamun, Horemheb, Seti I, Ramses II and Seti II. Tutankhamun decorated the eastern walls but Horemheb later erased the name of the boy king, and inscribed his own.

The Feast of Amon in the Apts took place around the middle of the inundation period and lasted twenty-four days. The sacred boats of the Theban triad were brought  from Karnak and carried into the temple of Luxor.

There would have been a great procession with musicians, dancers, priests, soldiers, and the chariots of the king. They would have been received at Luxor Temple by the priestesses with flowers and offering. Later in the evening the sacred boats would return home to Karnak.

Strangely this boat procession ceremony is still practiced today, although for a different reason. Each year during the Sufi Shaykh Ynsuf's Festival a boat is carried from the Mosque of al-Hajjaj into the streets of Luxor.

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Click the map above to take a tour of the temple.

1. The great pylon of Ramses II
2. The great court of Ramses II, which includes a shrine to Thutmose   III.
3. The mosque of Sufi Shaykh Yusuf Abu al-Hajjaj
4. The Pylon and colonnade of Amonhotep III.
5. The court of Amonhotep III
6. Hypostyle hall
7. The chapel of Alexander the Great.
8. Holy of Holies - Sanctuary

*Click here* to see a reconstruction of The Colonnade of Amenhotep III

*Click here* to return to Luxor page one
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