Chapelle Rouge

The Red Chapel ( also French Chapelle rouge ) is a barqueshrine for the god Amun -Re, part of the Karnak temple complex at Karnak in Egypt. It is composed of red and black blocks quartzite granite blocks, which form the base. Master builder was the female pharaoh Hatshepsut.

Background

Restoration work 319 blocks of black granite and red quartzite of the chapel came to light. By using the blocks as filler material thereon, the representations were saved from destruction and are now precious evidence for the history of the New Kingdom. From this material, the Red Chapel was built in the late 20th to the early 21st century in the open-air museum of Karnak temple again.

Construction and continued use

Originally it was built before the Hatshepsut temple from the Middle Kingdom in the Amun -Re Temple of Karnak. The entire decoration program shows Hatshepsut always in the male regalia, depending on the presentation with optional beard. Without inscriptions Hatshepsut would be indistinguishable from a male king.

After her death, the sanctuary, in the 23th year of Thutmose III was. demolished and replaced by his new bark sanctuary. Amenhotep III. used in the construction of the third pylon of the Amun Re - temple, the stones of the Red Chapel as a filler.

Arrangement of the registers

On the outer walls of the red chapel in the representations divided subject areas (registers ) were attached.