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Ruins of the Temple at Erments
1820, Lithograph
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Ruins of the Temple at Erments
Date
1820
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34.3 x 52.7 cm
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Giovanni Battista Belzoni was an Italian explorer and archaeologist, born in Padua (Padova). In 1803 he was working in England as a circus strong man, and exhibiting models of hydraulic engines. In 1815 he went to Cairo to try and sell his hydraulic engines to Muhammad 'Ali Pasha, and within two years had begun a new career, excavating Egyptian tombs and temples.
Armant, an ancient town in Upper Egypt near Thebes on the west bank of the Nile River . It was the seat of a sun cult and was a crowning place of kings. The war god Mont was worshipped there in hawk-headed human form and also in his epiphany, the bull Buchis. Armant was probably the original home of the rulers of Thebes.
The construction works of the temple began during the 11th Dynasty under Mentuhotep III. Later, annexes were added during the 12th Dynasty as many blocks with high quality reliefs were preserved with inscriptions by Amenemhat I. During the New Kingdom more additions were built onto the temple. The temple was destroyed during the Late Period, but Pharaoh Nectanebo I started building a new one that was continued by the Ptolemies.
The enclosure had also a sacred lake and birth house built by Cleopatra VII and Ptolemy XV Caesarion. In the 1800s, the temple was almost completely destroyed and its stones were used to build a factory. Only the remains of the pylon of Thutmose III are visible today.
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