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Image resource: Photograph of Other Processional Ways, by UCLA
Image resource: Photograph of Other Processional Ways, by UCLA
Image resource: Photograph of Other Processional Ways, by UCLA
Image resource: Photograph of Other Processional Ways, by UCLA
Image resource: Photograph of Other Processional Ways, by UCLA
Image resource: Photograph of Other Processional Ways, by UCLA

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Other Processional Ways

Originally built by Tutankhamen - 1336 BCE to 1327 BCE (Show in timemap)
Modified by Nectanebo I - 380 BCE to 362 BCE (Show in timemap)

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

Abd El-Raziq, Mahmud (1968), “Study on Nectanebo Ist in Luxor temple and Karnak.” Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo, vol. 23, 156-159.

Arnold, Dieter (1999), Temples of the last pharaohs. New York: Oxford University Press.

Bell, Lanny (1992), “Les Parcours processionnels,” in Louqsor : Temple du Ka royal. Dijon: Editions Faton, 27-29.

Cabrol, Agnes (1995), “Les criosphinx de Karnak: un nouveau dromos d'Amenhotep III.” Karnak, vol. X, 1-32.

es-Saghir, Mohammed (1992), “The great processional way of Thebes (the avenue of Sphinxes at Luxor),” in Atti Sesto Congresso internazionale di egittologia, vol. I. Turin: International Association of Egyptologists], 181-187.

Murnane, William (1991), “Tutankhamun, Ay, and the avenue of sphinxes between pylon X and the Mut precinct at Karnak.” Bulletin de la société d'égyptologie, vol. 15, 31-38.