Sunday 23 October 2011

Temple Hibs

The temple is located north of the city and beyond and the Temple of Hibs his original name blowing a word Pharaonic means plow It emphasizes the prosperity of agriculture, ancient region which was breadbasket of Egypt. Is this temple at the entrance to the city and beyond built this temple on an area of ​​798 square meters, a length of 42 m and width 19 meter
Hibs built a temple of Pharaoh Ahmose II and restored by Darius the Persian king to please the priests of Amun, who ruled Egypt during the Persian occupation of Egypt, built to please the priests of Amun, suggests that the power of the priests was a large and influential, or may be occupied the Persian king was influenced by the worship of the god Amun

It is considered the most important Egyptian temples, where he was the temple was the only Egyptian balance of the age-Sawi Persian in Egyptian history in the period of 660 to 330 BC.

  CE The temple was built in the era of Basmatic second through Twenty-sixth Dynasty, but inscriptions were completed in the Persian king 'house the first' around 500 BC. m in the age of thirty Pharaonic family

Then add the courtyard outside the temple in the era of 'Nectanebo I and II' and added Ptolemy II major east gate and the temple consists of temple art gate lake Mercy ROMANIAN rams through the gate and then Ptolemaic gate Persian porch and hall .. With twelve columns transverse hall and finally the Holy of Holies.

, And consists of three gates, based on the columns crowned with lotus Bzahrat their heads, and Halit walls from the inside and outside with carvings and writings of various famous painting by the record by the law of the 66

 

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