Dromos
A dromos (Greek name) is an alley, generally bordered of sphinx, prolonging, towards outside, the axis of a temple to connect it to another building or a landing stage of the the Nile.
Most famous are:
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the dromos connecting the temples of Karnak to the banks of the Nile, bordered of 40 sphinges with body of lion, some carrying a head of ram with turned over horns, said Sphinx criocéphale (registered with the World heritage by UNESCO in 1979), others a human head. It dates from and precedes a channel on which the boats crowned at the time of the great processions sailed joining Louxor during the ceremony of Opet.
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the rectilinear dromos of 2,5 km connecting the temple of Louxor to the first pylon of the Large temple of Amon with Karnak, bordered of more than 700 sphinges. There remains about it only the two ends, as well as a section put at the day in the center of the modern city; other sections could be buried under the dwellings.
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the dromos preceding the temple by Isis with Philaé, bordered of two colonnades carried out by the emperor Auguste.
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of the sphinges to the effigy of Hatchepsout bordered the dromos of the temple of Deir el-Bahari.
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