Other Processional Ways

Originally built by Tutankhamen - 1336 BCE to 1327 BCE Modified by Nectanebo I - 380 BCE to 362 BCE

Other works initiated by Nectanebo I: 1st Pylon, Contra Temple, Opet Temple, Shoshenq I Court, Enclosures and Gates, Bab el Amara Gate

Other processional ways: Western Processional Way

Introduction

The southern processional route leads both to the Mut and Luxor temples.

Phase: Tutankhamen

To the south, along the temple’s processional to the Mut temple, he added two lines of ram-headed sphinx statues. Study of the sphinxes suggests that they originally depicted Akhenaten and Nefertiti, and that the heads were removed and replaced with the image of a ram (the animal associated with the god Amun). The human-headed sphinxes likely adorned the temples in east Karnak, and were moved and altered by Tutankhamen as part of his religious restoration projects.

Phase: Nectanebo I

The entire two-kilometer processional route between Karnak and Luxor Temple was lined with approximately 700 sandstone human-headed sphinxes.

Construction materials: sandstone

Bibliography and Sources Used for Model Construction

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Arnold, Dieter (1999), Temples of the last pharaohs. New York: Oxford Univer- sity Press. Other Processional Ways

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