Amada (Nubian village)

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Temple of Amada

Amada was a Nubian village about 180 km south of Aswan . The name Amada is mostly used nowadays for the temple located there.

The temple

Name of Thutmose IV on the left central pillar

An Egyptian temple of the New Kingdom , which was dedicated to Amun-Re and Re-Harachte , stood in this place . The temple was built by Thutmose III. founded and expanded by Amenhotep II and Thutmose IV .

To rescue from flooding by the result of the Aswan High Dam resulting Lake Nasser , the temple 1964/65 was 2.6 km to a landward from its former location and added 65 m elevated place under the direction of French engineers. In order not to endanger the sensitive reliefs of the temple if the temple were dismantled, it was decided to relocate the temple as a whole. First, the foundations were lined with a concrete slab. At the same time, a corset was placed around the building, which was then slowly moved to its new location by means of a rail construction. A block weighing a total of 800 tons was moved with a distance of around 50 m covered per day.

Sanctuary of the temple

In Christian times, the temple was converted into a church, the paintings of which could still be seen in the 18th century. The description of these paintings by the traveler Frederic Louis Norden from 1738 is one of the oldest mentions of Christian Nubian wall paintings in modern times .

The temple stands on the 1979 World Heritage List of UNESCO .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max-Pol Fouchet: Nubie. Splendeur sauvée. P. 260
  2. ↑ UNESCO World Heritage Center: Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae.

Coordinates: 22 ° 43 '52 "  N , 32 ° 15' 45"  E