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The Lost Chapels Of Elephantine: Preliminary Results Of A Reconstruction Study Through Archival Documents, Daniele Salvoldi Dr., Simon Delvaux

Sociology, Egyptology & Anthropology Department: Faculty Work

Two bark repositories used to stand on Elephantine Island until the beginning of the 19th century: an almost complete chapel called ‘South Temple’, built by Amenhotep III, probably on the occasion of his second heb-sed, and a much ruined but similar building, the ‘North Temple’, built by Sety I or Ramesses II. Both were destroyed by the local governor in 1822 and the stone blocks reused for new constructions. Nowadays, not a single trace of them is left on the field: the only sources available are architectural cross sections and plans, relief copies, textual descriptions, and landscape views made by …