Relief, Temple of Opet, Karnak Temple, Thebes, Luxor, Egypt

Offering the Medjet ointment and divine union of Amun-Re the sun god as an ithyphallic Ba bird with Osiris as a deceased young man on a lion couch, relief on the north wall, era of Ptolemy Euergetes II, 2nd century BC, in the Temple of Opet, built 380-362 BC by Nectanebo I and remodelled by Ptolemy III and Ptolemy VIII, in the Precinct of Amun-Re, at the Karnak Temple Complex, Karnak, Thebes, Luxor, Egypt. The site was developed c. 2055 BC - 100 AD, from the Middle Kingdom to the Ptolemaic Kingdom and most of the buildings date to the New Kingdom, dedicated to the Theban Triad of Amun, Mut and Khonsu. Thebes is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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