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Location

  • Egypt, Şān al Ḩajar al Qiblīyah
  • geo:30.977455,31.879683

Period or year

  • -1000~ / unknown

Classification

  • temple
  • Visible

Tanis, Great temple of Amon-Ra

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The precinct of Amun temple in the center of the city was founded by the pharaoh Psusennes I  and built up by subsequent kings of the Twenty-first and Twenty-second  Dynasties. Temple has been change during the 30th Dynasty.

See:

  1. Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Tanis". Encyclopedia Britannica, Invalid Date, https://www.britannica.com/place/Tanis. Accessed 17 March 2021.
  2. Zivie-Coche, Christiane, 2008, Late Period Temples. In Willeke Wendrich (ed.), UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, Los Angeles. http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz000s3mkp

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2021-03-17) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/70081
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Suggested citation: Elżbieta , Tanis, Great temple of Amon-Ra. https://vici.org/vici/70081, accessed 2026-11-14.