Mortuary Temple of Mentuhotep II

Mortuary Temple of Mentuhotep II

ca. 2060–2010 BCE

1680

drawings (visual works)

Egypt (nation)

Ad Dayr al Baḩrī (ruins)

Eleventh Dynasty (Egyptian)

renderings (drawings)

Mentuhotep II--King of Egypt

mortuary temples

Reconstruction drawing of the Mortuary Temple of Mentuhotep, II. "The very impressive mortuary temple and tomb for Mentuhotep II rested on a huge terraced stand that was reached by a central ramp to the raised colonnaded forecourt of the mortuary temple. Some sort of superstructure existed, perhaps a pyramid at the center of this forecourt ... This complex then extended back through a hypostyle hall into a rock-cut sanctuary chamber for the king,"--from the Historical Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Nubia by Richard A. Lobban Jr.

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