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North
Entrance of the Temple of Luxor
watercolor
Inscribed: Luxor March 18 1874
9 x 11-3/4 inches
| The temple, built by
Amenophis III (1390-1352 BCE) and enlarged by Rameses II (1279-1213 BCE),
was dedicated to Amun, Mut, and Khonsu. Rameses placed two colossal seated
statues of himself, wearing the double crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt,
at the entrance. These are the figures that Bridgman has drawn, still at
the time largely buried by sand. They were only fully excavated in the 1960s.
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