The Temple of Abydos through dynasties

The Temple of Abydos through dynasties
The Temple of Abydos was occupied by the rulers of the Predynastic period, whose

Egypt Abydos reliefs in the temple, the god Horus and the king, Seti

town, Temple and tombs have been found there. The Temple and town continued to be

rebuilt to the times of the thirtieth

dynasty

, and the cemetery was used through time . Successively from the first

dynasty

 to the twenty-sixth

dynasty

, nine or ten temples were built on one site at The Temple of Abydos The first

dynasty

:- The pharaohs of the first

dynasty

 were buried in The Temple of Abydos, including Narmer, who is regarded as founder of the first

dynasty

, and his successor, Aha. It was in this time period that the Abydos boats were constructed. The second

dynasty

Some pharaohs of the second

dynasty

 were also buried in Abydos. The Temple was renewed and enlarged by these pharaohs as well. Funerary enclosures, misinterpreted in modern times as Great 'forts', were built on the desert behind the town by three kings of the second

dynasty

; the most complete is that of Khasekhemwy. The third

dynasty

The first Temple at Abydos was an enclosure, about 30 × 50 ft (9 x 15 m), surrounded by a thin wall of unbaked bricks. Incorporating one wall of this first structure, the second temple of about 40 ft (12 m) Square was built within a wall about 10 ft (3 m) thick. An outer enclosure wall surrounded the grounds. This outer wall was thickened about the second or third

dynasty

. The fourth

dynasty

The old Temple entirely vanished in the fourth

dynasty

, and a smaller building was erected behind it, enclosing a wide hearth of black ashes. The fifth

dynasty

  From the fifth

dynasty

, the deity Khentiamentiu, came to be seen as a manifestation of the dead pharaoh in the underworld. The Sixth

dynasty

The Temple was rebuilt entirely on a larger scale by Pepi I in the sixth

dynasty

. He placed a Great stone gateway to the temenos, an outer temenos wall and gateway, with a colonnade between the gates. His Temple was about 40 × 50 ft (12 x 15 m) inside, with stone gateways front and back, showing that it was of the processional type. The seventh

dynasty

The city of Abydos was considered the holiest of cities by the Ancient

Egypt

ians, who began pilgrimages to the city in the 7th Dynasty. It continued to be a the destination for funerary pilgrimages through the Ptolemys The eleventh

dynasty

In the eleventh

dynasty

 Mentuhotep I added a colonnade and altars. Soon after, Mentuhotep II entirely rebuilt the Temple, laying a stone pavement over the area, about 45 ft (14 m) Square, and added subsidiary chambers. The twelfth

dynasty

in the twelfth

dynasty

, Senusret I laid massive foundations of stone over the pavement of his predecessor. A Great temenos was laid out enclosing a much larger area and the new Temple itself was about three times the earlier size. Part of the Abydos King List The eighteenth

dynasty

The building during the eighteenth

dynasty

 began with a large chapel of Ahmose I. Then Thutmose III built a far larger Temple, about 130 × 200 ft (40 x 61 m). He also made a processional way leading past the side of the Temple to the cemetery beyond, featuring a Great gateway of granite. The nineteenth

dynasty

Seti I, in the nineteenth

dynasty

, founded a Temple to the south of the town in honor of the ancestral pharaohs of the early dynasties; this was finished by Ramses II, who also built a Lesser Temple of his own. Merneptah added the Osireion just to the north of the temple of Seti. The twenty-sixth

dynasty

Ahmose II in the twenty-sixth

dynasty

 rebuilt the Temple again, and placed in it a large monolith shrine of red granite, finely wrought. The foundations of the successive temples were comprised within approximately 18 ft (5.5 m). depth of the ruins discovered in modern times; these needed the closest examination to discriminate the various buildings, and were recorded by more than 4000 measurements and 1000 leveling. The Thirtieth

dynasty

The latest building was a new Temple of Nectanebo I, built in the thirtieth

dynasty

. The Ptolemaic times From the Ptolemaic times of the Greek occupancy

of

Egypt

, that began three hundred years before the Roman occupancy that followed, the structure began to decay and no later works are known.

Egypt Abydos Temple 76 kings and gods, fro Menes to Seti I 1

Egypt Abydos Temple 76 kings and gods, fro Menes to Seti I 2

Egypt Abydos Temple 76 kings and gods, fro Menes to Seti I 3

Egypt Abydos Temple 76 kings and gods, fro Menes to Seti I 4

Egypt Abydos Temple blessings of the god Amun

Egypt Abydos Temple Offerings of perfume, lotus flowers, and other gifts

Egypt Abydos Temple Offerings to Horus and Amun

Egypt Abydos Temple offerings to the god Anubis by the king in the sanctuary

Egypt Abydos Temple Rameses lassoing a bull, in the Hall of the Bull, Suite of Osiris

Egypt Abydos Temple Receiving gifts from the god Horus and Isis

Egypt Abydos Temple Seti I

Egypt Abydos Temple seti I making offerings of a gold necklace

Egypt Abydos Temple The first hypostyle hall, and the inner columned hall 1

Egypt Abydos Temple The first hypostyle hall, and the inner columned hall 2

Egypt Abydos Temple the heads of the statues in the inner sanctuary of Seti I

Egypt Abydos Temple The king, in the dress of Amun, receiving blessings

Egypt Abydos Temple the king in the arms of Hathor, Seti offering to the gods 1

Egypt Abydos Temple The scorched ceiling and defaced inscriptions in the columned hall

Egypt Abydos The mysterious hieroglyphs in Temple of Seti I

Egypt The facade of the temple of Seti, Abydos