Luxor, Egypt, originally uploaded by dennislim.
The temple of Queen Hatshepsut (Maat-Ka-Ra) is located in Thebes, modern day Deir El Bahari, at the west bank of Luxor – Egypt. Built during the XVIII Dynasty (1534-1292 BC). It is situated directly against the rock face of Deir El Bahri’s rock bay, echoing the lines of the surrounding cliffs in its design. The temple consists of 3 terraces connected by ramps with each other. In the middle of both ramps a central row of stairs lead upwards. The terraces are surrounded by gardens, sphinxes & T shaped papyrus ponds. Queen Hatshepsut recorded that she built the temple as "a garden for my father Amun," Each terrace is articulated by a double colonnade of square piers at the front, rounded & 16 sided columns at the back, with the exception chapel of Hathor with the characteristic Hathor-headed pillars. The layering of Queen Hatshepsut’s temple corresponds with the classical Theban form, employing Pylon, courts, hypostyle hall, sun court, chapel, and sanctuary. The model is a faithful attempt to reconstruct the temple to scale using ancient Egyptian measurements of royal cubits (RC). 1 Royal Cubit (RC) = 0.524 mtr. / 52.4 cm. Queen Hatshepsut’s temple is considered the closest Egyptians came to the Classical Architecture of the old kingdom namely the architecture of Imhotep, who designed the Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara. After download, open with Google sketchup, check out "layers" under window tab, to see details inside the temple.
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