Digital KarnakUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Digital KarnakRelated Features
Originally built by Hakoris – 393 BCE to 380 BCE
Other works initiated by Hakoris:
Chapel of HakorisIntroduction
The chapel of king Hakoris was a small rectangular chapel located outside the Amun temple’s first pylon. Two doorways opened to the small building’s west and to the north. Open papyrus form columns with low screen walls composed the western half of the chapel, while the eastern side was fully enclosed to the ceiling. A wooden architrave supported stone cavetto blocks.
Measurements: The chapel measured 10.2m across and 18m deep, with a reconstructed height of 5.62m. The western side had a wide opening of 4.88m, while the northern door was much smaller: 2.2m. The western architrave was made from an 8.25m wooden beam.
Phases of Construction
Hakoris
The chapel was used to house the portable bark of Amun-Ra on its processional journey outside the temple. The ingenious design of the chapel allowed the bark to be moved directly from the river (prow to the north) into the shrine via the northern door, and removed again) through the western door (prow still to the north) without changing the bark’s orientation as it entered into the temple precinct. A small granite platform in the rear of the chapel would have allowed the priests to rest the bark while they themselves changed position.
Construction materials: sandstone, black granite, wood
About the reconstruction model of Hakoris
Documentation
Lauffray, Jean. (1995),La Chapelle d’Achôris à Karnak: Fouilles, l’architecture, le mobilier et l’anastylose. Paris: Editions Recherche sur les civilisationsvol. 1
Traunecker Claude, Françoise Le Saout, Olivier Masson. (1981),La chapelle d’Achôris à Karnak: documents. Paris: Editions Recherche sur les civilisationsvol. 2
Traunecker Claude, Françoise Le Saout, Olivier Masson. (1981),La Chapelle d’Achôris à Karnak: Texte. Paris: Editions A.D.P.F.vol. 2