COLOSSI OF MEMNON &
AMENHOTEP III TEMPLE
CONSERVATION PROJECT

Colossi of Menon & Amenhotep III
Temple Conservation Project
شاملي برمجع مشرم شعير و مصافى النسيج
نجد

Ministry of Antiquities
وزير آثارpythea الفنون الأثرية

مشروع ترميم تمثالي ممنون
ومعبد أمنحب الثالث

The temple of Millions of Years of king Amenhotep III, commonly known as his funerary temple, was built within the 38 years of the reign of Amenhotep III, in the first half of the 14th century BC. Some 150 years later, around 1200 BC, the temple and surroundings were hit by a heavy earthquake. The site was then used as a quarry and most of the material was reused in the surrounding temples and later buildings. In the 19th C, the first collectors transferred royal statues, and smaller divine effigies, statues of the goddess Sekhmet, etc. to Museums all over the world.

Originally, the temple was built within a vast enclosure wall measuring 550m by 770m, including the main axial processional way, which started on the East by the first pylon, and proceeded westwards to a second pylon, then a third pylon, which was followed by a peristyle court, a hypostyle, and finally the sanctuary. Each of the three pylons was preceded by two colossi of Amenhotep III (the first and the second twin colossi were in quartzite, while the third pylon were in alabaster). Around the main processional way lay smaller temples, magazines, treasures, administrative buildings, priests' dwellings, gardens, pools, etc... All that has remained from this temple are the twin quartzite colossi at its easternmost entrance, known as the Memnon Colossi, some column bases of the peristyle court and the hypostyle, and the today occupy most of the temple precinct and the procession way itself is partially cut by the modern asphalt road.

today as the Memnon Colossi, some column bases of the peristyle court and the hypostyle, and the
today occupy most of the temple precinct and the procession way itself is partially cut by the modern
asphalt road.

Since 1998, 'The Colossi of Memnon and Amenhotep III Temple Conservation Project' works on the site
under the auspices of the Ministry of Antiquities of Egypt. The aim of this project is to save the last
remains of the prestigious temple of Amenhotep III and raise them in their original places. Egyptian,
 raised the northern colossus at the second pylon, the eastern colossus at the northern gate, and a number
 of smaller colossi in quartzite and red granite in the peristyle court. More is to be saved during the coming
 seasons of 'The Colossi of Memnon and Amenhotep III Temple Conservation Project'.

The figures below shoe a theoretical reconstruction of the temple as it once stood in the Theban necropolis in the first half of the 14th century BC.

نجد شمس در دور آنها قنصله مانند للملحق أمنحب الثالث أهداف إنجازها أمام الصحر الشامي بين عام ٢٠١٩ و ٢٠١٦ م從 قبل مشروع ترميم قنصل فينون و معبد أمنحب الثالث.

Behind the colossi of Memnon, two new colossal statues of Amenhotep III raised at the Second Pylon of his temple in 2012 to 2014 by The Colossi of Memnon and the Temple of Amenhotep III Conservation Project.

First Pylon and twin colossi of Amenhotep III (known as the Memnon colossi)

منظر عام للموقع قبل بداية مشروع ترميم تمثالي ممنون و معبد أمنحب الثالث في ٢٠٠٠
THE CONSERVATION PROJECT OF THE COLOSSI OF MEMNON AND AMENHOTEP III TEMPLE IN 2000

SITE OF THE TEMPLE BEFORE THE INITIATION OF
THE CONSERVATION PROJECT OF THE COLOSSI OF MEMNON AND AMENHOTEP III TEMPLE IN 2000