These group of Architectural Fragments have been discovered during Excavations at Souq el – Khamees Site at the end of Mostorod Street in el – Matarya Area by the Supreme Council of Antiquities Mission Season 2003] and none published before . The Site of Excavations is Situated about 500 metres to the west Obelisk of the King Senusert I
The king Senusert III built many temples for the gods such as : the great sacred temple for the god Osiris and memorial stela in Abydos which told us about this temple and relief represents the sacred Ennad of Iwnw (heliopolis) and restored some temples in upper Egypt cf. :- Breasted , A.R I, PP. 667 – 668 ; Alexander Badawy , A History of Egyptian Architecture , university of California 1960 , (in Arabic), Cairo 2002, P. 65 ; Gardiner, Ancient Egyptian Onomastica , II, London 1947, P.216, P. 463 ; and may be built Chaple in the Temple of Karnak because we could show his Coronation name inscribed on the wall of the Chaple of the king Senusert I or white Chaple at el – Karnak Temple cf. : Alexander Badawy , op. cit., Pl. 10 ; K. Lange and M. Hirmer, Egypt , London 1957, Pl. 91 and this recent discover which showed us the king Senusert III perhaps built chaple or Temple at the great Temple of Re in Heliopolis -The king Akhenaten perhaps built Temple for god Aten in Heliopolis because there are many monuments and fragments discovered dating to the same period such as :- Small fragments from limestone discovered in BAHTIM to the northwest of Heliopolis and now stored in Giza Magazine under number 182 cf. :- Bakry, Akhenaten at Heliopolis, in : CdE 47, 1972, PP. 60 – 61, fig. 5 ; Private tomb during the king Akhenaton discovered at Ard el – Naam (Ain Shams East) cf. :- Habachi, L., in : BBF 12, 1971, P. 37 ff, figs 17 – 19, Pl. 14, block N. 14 ; Bakry, op. cit., P.63 ff, figs 7 -8 ; Gohar, J., Akhenaton, s Sed – festival, Pl. 1 – II ; and other fragments dating to the same period cf. :- Petri, W.M.F./ Mackay, E., Heliopolis, Kafr Ammar and Shurafa, BSAE 24, London 1915, P.7, Pl. VIII; Some blocks from limestone dating to Akhenaton cf. :- Saleh, A., Excavations at HeliopolisII, P. 67, N.12, Pl. VIII a ; Habachi, op. cit, P. 41 ff, fig. 20 ; Lacau, P., Steles du Nouvel Empire, CGC , Le Caire 1926, P.214 ff, Pl. LXV ; Sandman, M., Texts from the time of Akhenaton, BA VIII, Bruxelles 1938, P.157 ; Ian shaw, "Atenism at Heliopolis: 'Great stele'or parapet? in :- JEA 80, 1994, P.119; Lohr , in :- GM 11, 1974, P.34 ff ; Assmann, in : LA I, 1975, S. 530, 538, Anm61,62 ; Maspero , Notes sur quelques points de grammaire et d,Histoire in :- ZAS 19, 1881, P. 116 ; and also pedestal or base family statue discovered in Ain Shams East , cf. :- Habachi , MDAIK 20, 1965, P.79 ff, fig. 8, Taf XXV c ; Fecht , in :- ZAS 85, 1969, S. 92 ff ; Sandman, op. cit., P.159, N. CLXXIII ; Assmann , in : - Saeculum 23, 1972, S. 117 ff, mit Anm. 38 ; Sandmann , op. cit., P.159, N. CIXXIII . 7 see map 1, N.4 Manetho mentioned that the worshipped of Mnevis in Heliopolis since the second dynasty cf. : Waddel, W. G., Manetho, Cambridge, London 1940, P20ff. 9 Tawfiq, S., Was Aton the god of Akhenaton only a mainfestation of the god Re ? in :- Papers of the first international Congress of Egyptology, Berlin 1979, PP 641- 43.
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