• Elephantine: temple of Satet, Room A

Elephantine: temple of Satet, Room A

Jadwiga Iwaszczuk
June 29, 2018
Tags: Satet temple temple of Satet Elephantine
temple room

Room A plays a role of a hypostyle hall of the temple of Satet. It is the biggest room of the temple measuring 776.25cm in width and 525.0cm in length.[1] The flat ceiling of the room is supported on two square Hathoric pillars.[2] Felix Arnold supposes that in the ceiling six window slots symmetrically distributed between the pillars illuminated the room.[3] The entrance to the temple is a typical outer entrance with slightly protruding door frame and is situated not on the axis of the temple but on the north side of the east outer wall of the building. Another two doors lead from room A to room B and room C.

The decoration was carved in raised relief and finished with the cryptographic frieze of Hatshepsut.[4]

Footnotes

  1. ^ F. Arnold in 783: Report on the 39th season of excavation and restoration on the island of Elephantine - - 2010 - Laskowska-Kusztal, Ewa, Arnold, Felix, Kopp, Peter, von Pilgrim, Cornelius, Raue, Dietrich, Budka, Julia, Engel, Eva-Maria.
  2. ^ 721: Details zur Rekonstruktion der Hathorpfeiler vom Satet-Tempel auf der Insel Elephantine - - - Bernhauer, Edith.
  3. ^ F. Arnold in 783: Report on the 39th season of excavation and restoration on the island of Elephantine - - 2010 - Laskowska-Kusztal, Ewa, Arnold, Felix, Kopp, Peter, von Pilgrim, Cornelius, Raue, Dietrich, Budka, Julia, Engel, Eva-Maria.
  4. ^ W. Kaiser in 648: Stadt und Tempel von Elephantine. Achter Grabungsbericht - - - Kaiser, Werner, Dreyer, Günter, Grossmann, Peter, Mayer, Wolfgang, Seidlmayer, Stephan.

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