Istabl Antar

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The rock temple of the lion goddess Pachet from the time of Hatshepsut
Name and throne of Sethos I.

Istabl Antar ( Arabic إسطبل عنتر Istabl 'Antar , DMG Isṭabl ʿAntar ; also Speos Artemidos , "Grotto of Artemis ") is an archaeological site in Middle Egypt . Here, about five kilometers south of the rock tombs of Beni Hasan in Middle Egypt, is the rock temple of Queen Hatshepsut from the 18th Dynasty ( New Kingdom ). The temple is dedicated to the lion goddess Pachet , for whom a cult in this area is only documented from the New Kingdom.

The monument was not completed because both the Hathor pillars at the temple entrance and the inner area of ​​the temple are unfinished. However, the image of the goddess Pachet can still be found in a niche inside. The entrance area has a dedicatory inscription containing the "denunciation of the Hyksos ". In the portico there are depictions of the queen with various gods. However, the name cartouches in the hall are those of Seti I (19th Dynasty), who usurped the rock temple and had the rest of the decoration done. Istabl Antar is comparable with the rock temple Haremhab in Jabal al-Silsila .

In the vicinity of the rock temple , graves of "sacred cats" were mainly found from the late period .

literature

  • Ahmed Fakhry : A new speos from the reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmosis III at Beni-Hasan. In: Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Egypte. Vol. 39, 1939, ISSN  1687-1510 , pp. 709-723, a plate.
  • Alan H. Gardiner : Davies's copy of the great Speos Artemidos inscription. In: Journal of Egyptian Archeology. Vol. 32, 1946, ISSN  0307-5133 , pp. 43-56, a table.
  • HW Fairman, Bernhard Grdseloff: Texts of Hatshepsut and Sethos I inside Speos Artemidos. In: Journal of Egyptian Archeology. Vol. 33, 1947, pp. 12-33, panels.
  • Richard H. Wilkinson : The world of temples in ancient Egypt. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-534-18652-4 .

Web links

Commons : Speos Artemidos  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Istabl Antar  - travel guide

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ian Shaw, Paul Nicholson: Reclam's Lexicon of Ancient Egypt. Reclam, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-15-010444-0 , p. 288.
  2. ↑ Richard H. Wilkinson: The world of the temples in ancient Egypt. Darmstadt 2005, p. 139.
  3. ↑ Dieter Arnold : The temples of Egypt. Apartments for gods, monuments, places of worship. Artemis & Winkler, Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-86047-215-1 , p. 184.

Coordinates: 27 ° 54 ′ 15 ″  N , 30 ° 52 ′ 23 ″  E