page_title: Precinct of Amun-Re
section_title: East/West axis
hierarchical_section_title: Precinct of Amun-Re / East/West axis
caption_attribution_description: English: Sacret Bark - shrines of Seti II in Karnak temple complex, Egypt
context_page_description: The Precinct of Amun-Re, located near Luxor, Egypt, is one of the four main temple enclosures that make up the immense Karnak Temple Complex. The precinct is by far the largest of these and the only one that is open to the general public. The temple complex is dedicated to the principal god of the Theban Triad, Amun, in the form of Amun-Re.
  The site occupies some 250,000 m² and contains many structures and monuments. The main temple itself, the Temple of Amun, covers some 61 acres. Some parts of the complex are closed or semi-closed, including large parts of the North-South Axis, which are under active excavation or restoration. The whole southeast corner is semi-closed. The northwest corner is a museum that requires an additional ticket to visit.
  Most of the southwest is an open-air assembling area containing millions of stone fragments, from small to huge, laid out in long rows, awaiting reassembly into their respective monuments. The area is not closed, as the temples of Khons and Opet both lie in this corner and are open to the public, though both are rarely visited, relative to the huge numbers of tourists who come to Karnak.
context_section_description: The main temple is laid out on an east–west axis, entered via a quay (now dry and several hundred metres from the Nile).
caption: Bark shrines of Seti II
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