Site plan drawing f5 p25.
Hatshepsut s temple floor plan.
The temple was designed by hatshepsut s steward and confidante senenmut who was also tutor to neferu ra and possibly hatshepsut s lover.
The colonnade narrates one of hatshepsut s greatest achievements.
From winlock excavations at deir el gahri 1911 1931.
Jan 18 2016 plan of queen hatshepsut s temple deir el bahri.
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The first monument built at the site was the mortuary temple of mentuhotep ii of the eleventh dynasty.
Hatshepsut s reign was essentially a peaceful one and her foreign policy was based on trade rather than war.
Hatshepsut s temple is the most ancient masterpiece of western landscape architecture her temple and its setting are one.
Columbia university press 1959.
Restoration and building were important royal duties and she undertook extensive building programs namely on the temples of the national god amon re.
One of the features of the mortuary temple that projects hatshepsut s greatness is a famous colonnade known as the punt colonnade located on the left side of the ramp to the third level.
The second terrace facade of the hatshepsut temple decorated with osirian colossi with the effigy of the queen.
Hatshepsut s temple is one of the world s most striking architectural masterpieces but perhaps even more noteworthy is the woman who commissioned it.
The temple was known as djeser djeseru holiest of the holy to the ancient egyptians and is now known as deir el bahri monastery of the north after the coptic monastery which used the site from the 5th century to the 19th century ad.
Mentuhotep ii s temple featured a large stone ramp.
Senenmut modeled it carefully on that of mentuhotep ii but took every aspect of the earlier building and made it larger longer and more elaborate.
And the dayr al baḥrī temple a funerary monument.
Located on the west bank of the nile opposite the city of luxor ancient thebes hatshepsut s temple is part of the theban necropolis built in a half circle of cliffs this memorial temple marks the entrance to the valley of the kings djeser djeseru holy of holiest is the name of the main building of the temple of hatshepsut.
It is thought that senimut the genius architect who built this temple found inspiration in his design by the plan of the neighboring mortuary temple of the 12th dynasty king neb hept re.
الدير البحري al dayr al baḥrī the monastery of the north is a complex of mortuary temples and tombs located on the west bank of the nile opposite the city of luxor egypt this is a part of the theban necropolis.