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mortuary temple

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mortuary temple
A temple for offerings and worship of a deceased person, usually a deified king, as distinguished from a cult temple.


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This work compiles b&w photos of papyri fragments from the mortuary temple of ancient Egyptian King Raneferef, with facing pages of b&w line drawings of hieroglyphic transcriptions, from the archives of the Czech Institute of Egyptology, Charles University, Prague.
Whisked hundreds of feet in the air, you look down on farmers on donkey-drawn carts and fields surrounding the ancient mortuary temple of Ramses II and the Colossi of Memnon, two 60ft, 3,500-year-old sandstone statues.
Rather than build upwards from a base, the Mortuary Temple was built downwards, being cut out of a mountain.
 
 
 
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