![]() It guided us to the inner courtyard, behind which there is a barque shrine, partially carved into the rock and deeper, in the very heart of the temple, there is the sanctuary or the holy of holies ( Ibid.:164). The entrance is on the axis and leads through a red granite portal ( Ibid.:164). ![]() Porticos have pillars reconstructed by archaeologists, decorated on the front with colossal Osirian statues representing the Queen in the form of the god Osiris they are five meters high each ( Ibid.:164). ![]() At the end of the way up, we were greeted by another terrace with porticoes on either side ( Ibid.:164). From the second, central courtyard, we climbed the ramp again ( Ibid.:164). The third story of the Temple has a different spatial layout and here are the main rooms of the monument (Lipińska 2008:164). The southern portico, on the other hand, is decorated with the highly detailed image of the exotic land of Punt, famous and unusual in the history of ancient Egypt, where the Queen went with a trade expedition ( Ibid.:163). The northern portico is decorated with bas-reliefs illustrating the legend of the divine birth of Hatshepsut ( Ibid.:163). The north side of the central courtyard is occupied by a colonnade that was never completed (Lipińska 2008:163). ![]() In the chapel of the goddess Hathor, embodied by Hatshepsut, both pillars and smooth, cylindrical columns topped with so-called Hathor’s capitals were built ( Ibid.:164). The Hathor chapel was built on the south side, and the Anubis chapel on the north side ( Ibid.:161,163). On both sides of the portico closing the courtyard from the west, there are chapels of collaterally worshiped deities in the temple ( Ibid.:161). Copyright©Archaeotravel.Ī transverse ramp led us to the middle level of the temple, with a similar architectural shape to the lower one, but more extensive (Lipińska 2008:161). Porticos have pillars reconstructed by archaeologists, decorated on the front with colossal Osirian statues representing the Queen in the form of the god Osiris. ![]()
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