Temple B700

 temple, ruins

A small Amun temple built by Atlanersa (ca. 650-640 BCE), completed by Senkamanisken (ca. 640-620 BCE), and restored in early Meroitic times (probably contemporaneously with B 600), after a major rock fall from the cliff behind, which destroyed the rear chambers. The temple once contained a finely carved bark stand, now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (23.728), which was used to support the bark of Amun of Napata (carried from B 500). Inscriptions on the fallen columns and relief blocks inside B 700 indicate that the temple honored all the major local aspects of Amun north to the second cataract: Amun of Napata, Amun “of Karnak” (at Napata), Amun of Kawa, Amun of Pnubs, and Dedwen of Semna. The function of the temple can probably be guessed in connection with B 800 (see below) and by noting the date of its construction, which occurred after the Kushite expulsion from Egypt www.jebelbarkal.org/