Temple Of Ramses III .. The Karnak Temple Complex .. Part ( 16 )

We are return to the small temple of Ramses III, which interrupts the row of Bubastite columns on the south side of the court . Being of 20^th dynasty date, this temple was obviously here before the court came into being, and it is plain that Ramses III considered the great temple to be completed by the pylon ( No. II ) of Ramses I which, in his day, formed the west front of the temple ; otherwise he would never have placed his temple where it was bound to be absorbed in any subsequent extensions .

The Great Temple Of Amen-Rê .. The Karnak Temple Complex .. Part ( 15 )

We now emerge from this somewhat complicated part of the temple into an open court where the 12^th dynasty temple originally stood . The scanty fragments which remain are mostly flush with the ground . Beyond the ruined walls on the left hand ( north ) of this court, and between them and the series of walls which enclose the temple to the north are two wells, one of them approached by a stair .

The Great Temple Of Amen-Rê .. The Karnak Temple Complex .. Part ( 14 )

In front of us, as we pass the VI and the last pylon of the main temple, a small and ruined structure of Tuthmosis III, with a granite gateway . On either side of the gateway is the well-known list of the conquests of Tuthmosis, which takes the usual form of a series of ovals with emergent figures, each oval bearing the name of a conquered city or locality . The list on the left-hand side is of particular interest, as it records, the tribes of the Upper Retenu ( Syria ) which His Majesty took in the wretched town of Megiddo .