Abou Ghorab
Abou Ghorab (or Abou Gourab, Abou Gorâb, Abu Gorab) is a site of Low-Egypt, in the south-west of the Cairo, on western bank of the the Nile to the edge of the Western desert, located at the north of Abousir and belonging to the vast necropolis memphite where the kings were made build solar temples.
There of be six according to the sources. Among them one could identify that of Ouserkaf, but only whose ruins were excavated is that of Niouserrê-Ini. He was discovered and studied by the Egyptologists von Bissing and Ludwig Borchardt at the end of the 19th century. Its name was that which delights the heart by Re .
The sanctuary was built on a ground overhanging of sixteen meters the valley, ground which was widened towards north and is in order to support the whole of the building. The temple is enclosed in a vast enclosure equipped with a monumental door for the east and is connected to the valley by a roadway covered on the basis of a Temple of reception, formerly surrounded buildings and dwellings. The surface thus defined by the rectangular enclosing wall (110 X 80 m) was paved and included/understood stores supported on the northern wall, constructions which could have been of the slaughter-houses, as well as a monumental alabaster furnace bridge directed towards the four cardinal points on which were offered to Re daily offerings.
Behind the furnace bridge rose high a twenty height meters pyramidal base, built out of stones of Granit and on which a Obélisque was drawn up thirty-six meters height built out of calcareous stone. There does not remain today that the base of the base. An internal staircase gave access the terrace of the base located at twenty meters of the base.
The access to this staircase was made by a baptized room the room of the seasons because of the splendid scenes representing the life of the country and the Egyptian countryside which were discovered there. The majority of these single fragments in their kinds were taken along in Germany and unfortunately the majority were destroyed at the end of the Second world war at the time of the seat of Berlin.
Out of the enclosure, southern part, was discovered a solar Barque brick of which the length was of thirty meters. It is laid out in a broad pit.
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