Temple of Derr

Nubian monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae
UNESCO world heritage
	Entrance to the Temple of Derr
National territory:	Egypt
Type:	Culture
Criteria :	i, iii, vi
Surface:	374.48 ha
Reference No .:	88
UNESCO region :	Arabic states
	History of enrollment
Enrollment:	1979 ( session 3 )

The Temple of Derr is an ancient Egyptian rock temple of the hemispeos type , the king ( pharaoh ) Ramses II. In the 13th century BC. Was built on the east bank of the Nile in Nubia west of Amada . The approximately 37-meter-long building, which was called "House of Ramses-loved-of- Amun (= Ramses II.) In the House of Re ", is one of the larger rock temples in Egypt and had two pillared halls. Some of the pillars were specially made or cut out of the rock.

The design of the temple resembles the great rock temple of Abu Simbel . Like this, the temple of Derr was also dedicated to the gods Amun-Re , Ptah , Re-Harachte and the king himself. Compared to the large temple, the statues are missing on the facade, but there were two large colossi of the king at the entrance . The Temple of Derr was badly damaged. In the days of the early Christians in the country, it had been used as a church and parts of the wall decorations were destroyed. One of the surviving reliefs is one that shows a procession of the royal children of Ramses II.

In the course of the construction of the Aswan High Dam , the temple was cut out of the original rock in 1964 and, like other temples in the area, moved to New Amada and partially rebuilt there.

literature

Richard Lepsius: Derr. In: Monuments from Egypt and Ethiopia , Vol. V, p. 102

Richard Lepsius : Monuments from Egypt and Ethiopia . Ed .: Édouard Naville . Fifth volume of text. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1913, Derr, p. 102–110 ( digitized (reprint) ).
Irmgard Hein: The Ramessidic building activity in Nubia (= Friedrich Junge, Wolfhart Westendorf [Hrsg.]: Göttinger Orientforschungen, IV. Series: Egypt . Volume 22 ). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1991, ISBN 978-3-447-03080-9 , Derr, p. 23-25 ( online ).
Dieter Arnold : The temples of Egypt. Apartments for gods, monuments, places of worship. Artemis & Winkler, Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-86047-215-1 , p. 81.
TGH James : Ramses II. Müller, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-89893-037-8 , pp. 170-171.
Richard H. Wilkinson : The world of temples in ancient Egypt. Theiss, Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1975-3 , pp. 221-222.

Web links

Commons : Temple of Derr - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: New Amādā - travel guide

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