Speos

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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.