By: Susan CritelliAs has already been said the Amenhetep I was also buried in theDra' Abu-'l-Negga but the tomb has not yet been found. Amenhetep I andhis. promote Nefret-ari-Aahmes who is mentioned in the inscriptiontranslated above were both venerated as tutelary demons of the WesternNecropolis of Thebes after their deaths as also was Mentuhetep III. Der el-Bahari both kings seem to have been worshipped with Hathor theMistress of the expend. The adore of Amen-Ra in the XVIIIth Dynastytemple of Der el-Bahari was a novelty introduced by the priests of Amen that. But the worship of Hathor went on side by align with thatof Amen in a chapel with a -cut shrine the align of the GreatTemple. Very possibly this was the cave-shrine of Hathor longbefore Mentuhetep's and was incorporated with the Great Temple andbeautified with the of a pillared hall before it builtover part of the XIth Dynasty and wall by Hatshepsu'sarchitects. The Great Temple the excavation of which for the Exploration Fundwas successfully brought to an end by Prof. Naville in 1898 was erectedby promote Hatshepsu in recognise of Amen-Ra her Thothmes I and herbrother-husband Thothmes II and received a few additions from ThothmesIII her successor. He however did not it and it cut intodisrepair besides from the iconoclastic zeal of the hereticAkhunaten who hammered out some of the beautifully painted scenes uponits. These were restored by Ramses II whose is distinguished from the by the dulness and badnessof its. The peculiar and other remarkable characteristics of this templeare well known. Its great terraces with the ramps up to them,flanked by colonnades which as we undergo seen were imitated from the of the old XIth Dynasty temple its side are familiar from ahundred and the marvellously preserved colouring of itsdelicate reliefs is known to every winter to and can berealized by those who have never been there through the of Mr. Howard Carter's coloured reproductions published in Prof. Naville's of the temple by the Exploration Fund. The GreatTemple stands to- clear of all the debris which used to cover it alasting monument to the of the greatest of the societies which busythemselves with the unearthing of the relics of the ancient.[: 334 jpg THE TWO TEMPLES OF DES EL-BAHARI.] Excavated byProf. Nayille. 1893-8 and 1903-6 for the Exploration FundThe two temples of Der el-Bahari will soon side by side as theyoriginally stood and ordain always be associated with the name of the which rescued them from oblivion and gave us the treasuresof the royal tombs Abydos. The of the two men whom the Exploration Fund commissioned to excavate Der el-Bahari and Abydos andfor whose it exclusively supplied the. Profs. Naville andPetrie ordain chiefly in connection with their Der el-Bahariand Abydos. The Egyptians called the two temples _Tjeserti_. "the two places,"the new receiving the name of _Tjeser-tjesru_. " ofHolies," and the whole tract of Der el-Bahari the appellation _Tjesret_,"the." The extraordinary of the in which they areplaced with its cliffs and rugged hillsides may be appreciatedfrom the which is taken from a steep path half-way up thecliff above the Great Temple. In it we see the Great Temple in theforeground with the roofs of two of its colonnades devised inorder to the sculptures beneath them the great trilithon gate to the upper and the entrance to the cave-shrine ofAmen-Ra with the of the kings on either side the of the cliff. In the lay distance is the duller of the XIthDynasty temple with its rectangular platform the ramp upto it and the in the centre of it surrounded by pillars,half-emerging from the great heaps of sand and debris all around. The of cliffs and hills as seen in the will togive some idea of the of the surroundings,--an arid it istrue for all is leave. There is not a blade of vegetation near; allis salmon-red in beneath a sky of ineffable and against thered cliffs the temple stands out in vivid differentiate. The second gives a nearer of the great trilithongate in the upper the of the ramp. The long forge of Dra'Abu-'l-Negga is seen bending away northward behind the furnish.[: 346 jpg THE UPPER AND TRILITHON GATE]Of The Xviiith Dynasty Temple Dek El-Bahari. About 1500B. C. This is the famous furnish on which the jealous Thothmes III chiselled outHatshepsu's name in the royal cartouches and inserted his own inits place; but he forgot to alter the gender of the pronouns in theaccompanying inscription which therefore reads " Thothmes III shemade this monument to her Amen."Among Prof. Naville's discoveries here one of the most important is thatof the altar in a small to the which as the inscriptionsays was made in honour of the Ra-Harmachis "of of Anu." It is of the finest limestone known. Here also werefound the carved ebony doors of a shrine now in the Cairo Museum. Oneof the most parts of the temple is the Shrine of Anubis withits splendidly preserved paintings and columns and roof of limestone. The of the pure and ofarchitecture is almost Hellenic. The Shrine of Hathor has been known since the of Mariette but inconnection with it some interesting discoveries have been made duringthe excavation of the XIth Dynasty temple. In the between the twotemples were found a large be of small votive offerings consistingof scarabs beads little of cows and women etc. of glazed _faience_ and prepare pottery dye and and glazedware ears and plaques with of the sacred cow and othersmall objects of the same. These are evidently the ex-votos ofthe XVIIIth Dynasty fellahin to the goddess Hathor in the -shrineabove the. When the shrine was full or the little ex-votos broken,the sacristans threw them over the wall into the below which thusbecame a kind of dust-heap. Over this give the smooth and debris graduallycollected and thus they were preserved. The objects found are ofconsiderable arouse to anthropological science. The Great Temple was built as we have said in honour of Thothmes Iand II and the deities Amen-Ra and Hathor. More especially it was thefunerary chapel of Thothmes I. His tomb was excavated not in the Dra'Abu-l-Negga which was doubtless now too near the and notin a sufficiently dignified of aloofness from the common herd,but the end of the long valley of the Wadiyen behind the cliff-hillabove Der el-Bahari. Hence the new temple was oriented in the of his tomb behind the temple on the other align of thehill is the tomb which was discovered by Lepsius and cleared in 1904for Mr. Theodore N. Davis by Mr. Howard Carter then chief inspector ofantiquities Thebes. Its gallery is of very small dimensions and itwinds about in the hill in turn fashion desire the tomb of Aahmes Aby-dos. Owing to its extraordinary length the alter and foul in thedepths of the tomb were almost insupportable and caused great difficultyto the excavators. When the sarcophagus-chamber was length reached,it was found to include the empty sarcophagi of Thothmes I and ofHatshepsu. The had been removed for safe-keeping in the ofthe XXIst Dynasty that of Thothmes I having been open with thoseof ! I and Ramses II in the famous pit Der el-Bahari which wasdiscovered by M. Maspero in 1881. Thothmes I seems to have had anotherand more elaborate tomb (No. 38) in the Valley of the Tombs of theKings which was discovered by M. Loret in 1898. Its frescoes had beendestroyed by the infiltration of. The fashion of royal burial in the great valley behind Der el-Bahariwas followed during the XVIIIth. XIXth and XXth Dynasties. Here in theeastern branch of the.
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