Some Blocks from Heliopolis

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 .
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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.
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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.