Audience Hall (Ancient Egypt)

Audience hall in hieroglyphics
djadu ḏ3dw audience hall

The audience hall ( ancient Egyptian djadu ) was the throne room of the ancient Egyptian king ( Pharaoh ) and has been inscribed since the Middle Kingdom .

It was a brick building with four to six columns that carried three longitudinal barrels . In the center of the throne wall was a flat, richly decorated throne pedestal with front and side stair ramps . Examples of audience halls can be found from the 18th dynasty in the cult palaces of Amarna , Medinet Habu and other millions of years old , in Malqata and in the palace of Merenptah in Memphis . The audience hall also existed in a simplified form in the middle of mansions.

literature

• Audience hall. In: Dieter Arnold : Lexicon of Egyptian architecture . Albatros, Düsseldorf 2000, ISBN 3-491-96001-0 , p. 31.
• Rainer Stadelmann : Audience Hall. In: Wolfgang Helck and Eberhard Otto (Hrsg.): Lexikon der Ägyptologie . Volume I: A - Harvest. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1975, ISBN 3-447-01670-1 , p. 554.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Audience Hall. In: Dieter Arnold: Lexicon of Egyptian architecture. P. 31.