The Southern Buildings Of The Great Temple Of Amûn .. The Karnak Temple Complex .. Part ( 17 )

We have now finished our survey of the main building of the great temple ; but, besides the scattered remains of small temples and shrines which lie within the great temenos of Amûn, there is a very considerable southern extension which contains a number of reliefs and inscriptions of great interest .

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 .