DIKUL - logo
E-viri
Celotno besedilo
Recenzirano Odprti dostop
  • THE SOLAR ALTAR IN THE TEMP...
    Ćwiek, Andrzej

    Polish archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2015, Letnik: 1, Številka: XXIV
    Journal Article

    In a recent article Teresa Dziedzic presented a theoretical reconstruction of the solar altar in the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, with two obelisks standing on the top of it. From both a technological/logistic and an ideological point of view this hypothesis seems untenable. An alternative reconstruction may be offered in agreement with the archaeological evidence and the ideological program of the temple. Statues of the king and of Amun-Ra placed on the altar served as focal points of an early version of the ritual of ‘joining the sun-disk’.