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Volume III. The Bubastite Portal

OIP 74. Reliefs and Inscriptions at

Karnak, Volume III. The Bubastite
Portal

The Epigraphic Survey

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The Bubastite Portal is the south entrance to the great First

Court of the Temple of Amun at Karnak. It was architecturally

conceived as a uniform part of the wall and colonnade

surrounding the court. Had it not been for the presence of the

temple of Ramses III in the way, this entrance would probably

have been placed directly opposite the north entrance at a

point almost exactly in the middle of the Ramses temple.

Under the circumstances it was built to occupy the space

between the Second Pylon and the Ramses temple, and

became somewhat more elaborate than the north entrance by

the necessary addition of a pilaster against each of the earlier

structures.

Oriental Institute Publications 74

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1954

Pp. xiv; 1 figure, 22 plates

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