temple room
Room C is situated in the south part of the temple and measures 551.25cm in length and 157.5cm in width.[1] It has two doors, the entrance door located in the east wall and coming from room A and another one leading to room D and placed in the west end of the north wall.
The walls of the room were decorated in raised relief and finished with the cryptographic frieze of Hatshepsut.[2]
Footnotes
- ^ 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.
- ^ W. Kaiser in 648: Stadt und Tempel von Elephantine. Achter Grabungsbericht - - - Kaiser, Werner, Dreyer, Günter, Grossmann, Peter, Mayer, Wolfgang, Seidlmayer, Stephan.
Bibliography:
- Kaiser, Werner, Grossmann, Peter, Dreyer, Günter, Seidlmayer, Stephan, Mayer, Wolfgang, Stadt und Tempel von Elephantine. Achter Grabungsbericht, Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo 36, 1980, 254, 256
- Arnold, Felix, von Pilgrim, Cornelius, Kopp, Peter, Laskowska-Kusztal, Ewa, Budka, Julia, Engel, Eva-Maria, Raue, Dietrich, Report on the 39th season of excavation and restoration on the island of Elephantine, 2010, 8 tabl. 1