Speos Artemidos
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The Speos Artemidos (
Jean-François Champollion identified the temple as the Speos of Artemis mentioned by the Greeks of antiquity. The Greeks identified the goddess Pakhet with Artemis.[2]
There are two temples here, both of which are dedicated to Pakhet. They are cut out of the rock into the cliffs on the eastern side of the Nile. One of the temples, built by the pharaoh Hatshepsut, has an architrave bearing a long dedicatory text with her famous denunciation of the Hyksos.[3] Nearby is a small shrine bearing the name of Alexander IV of Macedon.[4][2]
An earlier temple was probably located here, but no traces older than that of Hatshepsut have been found. The decorations inside have been usurped by Seti I in places, his name replacing that of Hatshepsut.
Seti altered the text to replace Hatshepsut's name with his own and changed representations of the Queen to depictions of himself, but Fairman and Grdseloff argued that there was no clear evidence that
References
- ^ Gauthier, Henri (1925). Dictionnaire des Noms Géographiques Contenus dans les Textes Hiéroglyphiques Vol. 2. pp. 93, 94.
- ^ a b Shenouda, S. (1976). "Speos Artemidos, Egypt". The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
- ^ Speos Artemidos Inscription of Hatshepsut, based on the work of James P. Allen
- ISBN 9780306461583.
- ^ p12-13 Fairman, H.W and Grdseloff, B (1947)
- ^ P54 Brand (2000)
- ^ Fairman and Grdseloff 1947:13, Brand 2000:55-56
Further reading
- Fakhry, Ahmed, A new speos from the reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmosis III at Beni-Hasan, In: Annales du Service des Antiquités de l’Égypte, Issue 39 (1939), S. 709 – 723
- Brand, Peter James (2000) The monuments of Seti I: epigraphic, historical, and art historical analysis
- Gardiner, Alan Henderson, Davies’s copy of the great Speos Artemidos inscription, In: Journal of Egyptian Archaeology Issue 32 (1946), S. 43 – 56
- Fairman, H. W.; Grdseloff, B., Texts of Hatshepsut and Sethos I inside Speos Artemidos, In: Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Issue 33 (1947), S. 12 – 33
- Goedicke, Hans. "The Speos Artemidos Inscription of Hatshepsut and Related Discussions". Oakville, CT: HALGO, 2004. Print.