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Roman, Greek and ClassicalSite Name: Iuni Temple of Montu Alternative Name: Armant Temple of Montu
Country: Egypt Region: Upper Egypt (South) Type: Ancient Temple
Nearest Town: Luxor  Nearest Village: Armant
Latitude: 25.621690N  Longitude: 32.544628E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Ancient Temple in Upper Egypt (South)

The construction works of the temple began during the 11th Dynasty under Mentuhotep III. Later, annexes were added during the 12th Dynasty as many blocks with high quality reliefs were preserved with inscriptions by Amenemhat I. During the New Kingdom more additions were built onto the temple. The temple was destroyed during the Late Period, but Pharaoh Nectanebo I started building a new one that was continued by the Ptolemies.
The enclosure had also a sacred lake and birth house built by Cleopatra VII and Ptolemy XV Caesarion. In the 19th century CE, the temple was almost completely destroyed and its stones were used to build a factory. Only the remains of the pylon of Thutmose III are visible today.

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Two New Kingdom statues discovered in Egypt by bat400 on Monday, 24 February 2014
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French archaeologists have discovered two statues dating back to Egypt's New Kingdom (1539-1075 B.C.) in the archaeological zone of Luxor, Egypt's Ministry of State for Antiquities, or MSA, said.

The excavation work that led to the discoveries was carried out by experts from the French Institute for Oriental Archaeology in Cairo in the patio of a temple dedicated to the falcon-god of war, Montu, located in the town of Armant. One of the two statues depicts a high priest, while the name and profession of one of the temple scribes are engraved in the other statue, the MSA's chief, Mohammed Ibrahim, said Tuesday.

The first statue, carved out of diorite stone, is 69 centimeters (27 inches) tall and 48 centimeters wide and depicts a priest kneeling down and dressed in religious vestments. The head of the MSA's Ancient Egyptian Department, Mohammed Abdel Maqsud, said the priest was clinging to an offering table that has two falcon heads, which represent Montu, and religious texts carved in hieroglyphs.

The second piece, made out of limestone, is larger and depicts one of the great temple scribes, "imn-hob," holding a sarcophagus and a statuette of Montu.

Construction of the temple began in the Middle Kingdom (1975-1640 B.C.) and was expanded during the successive Pharaonic dynasties until era of the Ptolemaic Kingdom (332-30 B.C.). The experts from the French Institute for Oriental Archaeology in Cairo are working in the area in collaboration with France's University of Montpellier and a French-Egyptian center for the study of the Luxor temples.

Thanks to coldrum for the link. Source: archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com
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