Speos
Speos (Greek: σπέος for cave or grotto ) is the name used by Egyptologists in the 19th century for a rock temple built entirely in the rock . If parts of the temple have been erected free-standing outside the rock, it is called Hemispeos or Semispeos .
Rock temples were partly laid out in quarries .
Examples Speos
- Speos Artemidos
- Great and Small Temples of Abu Simbel
- Temple of the Haremhab in Jebel al-Silsila
- Temple of Eje in Achmim
- Rock temple Thutmose 'III. from Ellesija
- Gebel Doscha rock temple in Nubia
Examples of hemispeos
- Temple of Ramesses II at Bet el-Wali
- Temple of Ramses II of Derr
- Ptah Temple by Gerf Hussein
- Temple of Courage at Gebel Barkal
- Temple of Seti I in Wadi Mia
- Temple of Ramses 'II of Wadi as-Subu'
- Temple of Hathor at Serabit al-Hadim
literature
- Rosemarie Klemm : From quarry to temple: observations on the building structure of some rock temples of the 18th and 19th dynasties in motherland Egypt. Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprach und Altertumskunde, Volume 115, 1988, pp. 41-51.