Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis' has mentioned 'Amun' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| From the end of the New Kingdom, Thebes was known in Egyptian as niwt-'imn, the "City of Amun", the chief of the Theban Triad of deities whose other members were Mut and Khonsu. | WIKI |
| In the interpretatio graeca, Amun was rendered as Zeus Ammon. | WIKI |
| Thebes continued to thrive as a religious center as the local god Amun was becoming increasingly prominent throughout Egypt. | WIKI |
| The oldest remains of a temple dedicated to Amun date to the reign of Senusret I. | WIKI |
| For instance, Amenhotep III poured much of his vast wealth from foreign tribute into the temples of Amun. | WIKI |
| [24] The Theban god Amun became a principal state deity and every building project sought to outdo the last in proclaiming the glory of Amun and the pharaohs themselves. | WIKI |
| Aside from embellishing the temples of Amun, Amenhotep increased construction in Thebes to unprecedented levels. | WIKI |
| For a brief period in the reign of Amenhotep III's son Akhenaten (1351xe2x80x931334 BC), Thebes fell on hard times; the city was abandoned by the court, and the worship of Amun was proscribed. | WIKI |
| The Great Harris Papyrus states that Ramesses III (reigned 1187xe2x80x9356) donated 86,486 slaves and vast estates to the temples of Amun. | WIKI |
| The plundered royal mummies were moved from place to place and at last deposited by the priests of Amun in a tomb-shaft in Deir el-Bahri and in the tomb of Amenhotep II. | WIKI |
| Control of local affairs tended to come more and more into the hands of the High Priests of Amun, so that during the Third Intermediate Period, the High Priest of Amun exerted absolute power over the South, a counterbalance to the 21st and 22nd Dynasty kings who ruled from the Delta. | WIKI |
| Intermarriage and adoption strengthened the ties between them, daughters of the Tanite kings being installed as Godxe2x80x99s Wife of Amun at Thebes, where they wielded greater power. | WIKI |
| Assyrians installed Psamtik I (664xe2x80x93610 BC), who ascended to Thebes in 656 BC and brought about the adoption of his own daughter, Nitocris I, as heiress to God's Wife of Amun there. | WIKI |
| Ancient built-up area Great Temple of Amun at Karnak (Ancient Egyptian Ta-opet). | WIKI |
| Still the second largest religious building ever built, it is the main house of worship for Amun, Thebes' patron deity, and the residence of the powerful Amun priesthood. | WIKI |