at-Tud

aṭ-Ṭūd

Location in Egypt

At-Tud ( Arabic الطود, DMG aṭ-Ṭūd ; also et-Tod , el-Tod or el-Tôd ; ancient Egyptian Djerti (Ḏrty) ; ancient Greek Touphion ) is a place about twenty kilometers southwest of the city of Luxor in Egypt . It is located in Luxor Governorate (Luxor) , in ancient times there was Djerti in the fourth Upper Egyptian nome .

history

In at-Tud there is a temple of the god Month, which is now badly damaged . The building history can be traced back to the Old Reich , because a pillar carries the Userkaf cartouche ( 5th dynasty ). Some blocks indicate building activities by kings of the 11th dynasty . The foundation and a wall of a new temple under Sesostris I have been preserved. Next to a processional street Thutmose III. build a barge station with a colonnade and Ptolemy IV connect the temple to a quay with an avenue of sphinxes . Ptolemy VIII then added a hypostyle and a pronaos to the temple of the Middle Kingdom . The temple also has a 9 meter deep sacred lake .

Fernand Bisson de la Roque carried out excavations in at-Tud between 1934 and 1940. In 1936 the “Treasure of El-Tod” was discovered in the foundation of the temple, which consisted of four bronze chests of Amenemhet II with valuables, some of which were imported from the Middle East . This treasure is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and in the Louvre in Paris . De la Roque and Jean Vercoutter continued the excavations in at-Tud from 1946 to 1950, Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt from 1979 to 1991. Since 1998 a French mission under the direction of Christophe Thiers has been busy with the epigraphic recording of the temple.

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