Bibliography on the Karnak Hypostyle Hall

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Barguet, Paul     

1962               Le Temple d'Amon Re a Karnak.  Cairo:  Institut Français l'Archeologie Orientale.

Bell, Lanny

1985               "Luxor Temple and the Cult of the Royal Ka."  Journal of Near Eastern Studies 44: 251-294.

1997               "The New Kingdom 'Divine' Temple:  The Example of Luxor."  Temples of Ancient Egypt.  New York: Tauris Publishers.

 Brand, Peter J.

1999               "Methods used in Restoring Reliefs Vandalized during the Amarna Period."  Shafer, Byron E.  (ed.) Göttinger Mitzellen zur ägyptologische Beitrage 170: 37-48.

 2000              The Monuments of Seti I:  Epigraphic, Historical and Art-Historical Analysis.   Leiden: E. J. Brill.

 2001a             "Rescue Epigraphy in the Hypostyle Hall,"  a postscript to "A Forest of Columns" The Karnak Great Hypostyle Hall Project," by William J. Murnane†, KMT: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt. Vol. 12, No. 3: 59.

2001b             "Rescue Epigraphy in the Karnak Hypostyle Hall," Egyptian Archaeology 19: 11-13.

2001c             Bulletin of the American Research Center in Egypt, No. 180 1 & 3-6.

2001d             "Repairs Ancient and Modern in the Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak."

2004                "Review of Vincent Rondot, The Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak: Les architraves. 2 vols, (Paris, 1997)," Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 88 (2002), 267-269.

Breasted, James Henry 

1903               The Battle of Kadesh: A Study in the Earliest Known Military Strategy.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Chevrier, Henri

1957               "Chronologie des Constructions de la Salle Hypostyle." Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte 54: 35-38.

Christophe, Louis A.

1955               Les divinités des colonnes de la grande salle hypostyle et leurs epithetes.  Cairo:  Institut Français d'Archeologie Orientale.

1960               "La face sud des architraves surmontant les colonnes 74-80 de la grande salle hypostyle de Karnak." Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'archéologie Orientale B Caire 60: 69-82.

Clark, Somers & Engelbach, R.

 1930               Ancient Egyptian Masonry:  The Building Craft.  London: Oxford University Press.

David, Rosalie

 1981               A Guide to Religious Ritual at Abydos.  Warminster:  Aris and Phillips.

Engelbach, Reginal

1925               "The Origin of the Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak." Ancient Egypt:65-71.

Epigraphic Survey

1985               The Battle Reliefs of King Sety I.  Reliefs and Inscriptions at Karnak 4.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.

Gaballa, Gaballa A.

1969               "Minor War Scenes of Ramesses II at Karnak."  Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 55:  82-88.

1976              Narrative in Egyptian Art.  Mainz:  Phillip von Zabern.

Gilbert, Pierre

1942               "La conception architecturale de la salle hypostyle de Karnak." Chronique d'Égypte 34:169-177.

1943               "Remarques sur l'architecture de la salle hypostyle de Karnak." Chronique d'Égypte 35: 38.

Groenewegen-Frankfort, H. A. 

1951               Arrest and Movement:  An Essay on Space and Time in the Representational Art of the Ancient Near East.  London:  Faber & Faber.

Gundlach, Rolf and Rochholz, Matthais (editors)

1994               Agyptische Tempel: Struktur, Funktion und Programm.  Hildesheimer Agyptologische Beitrage 37.  Hildesheim:  Gerstenberg Verlag.

Haeny, Gerhard

1970               Basilikale Anlagen in der Agyptischen Baukunst des Neuen Reiches.  Beitrage zur agyptischen Bauforschung und Alterumskunde 9.  Wiesbaden:  Otto Herassowitz Verlag. 

M. G. Hasel

1994               "Israel in the Merneptah Stela," BASOR 296: 45-61.

Heinz, Susanna Constanze 

2001               Die Feldzugsdarstellungen des Neuen Reiches:  Eine Bildanalyse.  Vienna:  Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Helck, Wolfgang

1976               "Die Systematik der AusschmÜckung der Hypostylen Halle von Karnak." Mitteiligungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts. Abteilung Kairo 32: 57-65.

Kemp, Barry G.

1989              Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization.  New York, Routlege.

Kitchen, Kenneth A. 

1979              Ramesside Inscriptions 2.  Oxford: B. H. Blackwell.

1993               Ramesside Inscriptions, Translated and Annotated:  Translations 1.  Oxford:  B. H. Blackwell. 

1999               Ramesside Inscriptions, Translated and Annotated:  Notes and Comments 2.  B. H. Blackwell. 

 

Kuentz, Charles 

1928               La Battaille de Qadesch.  Memories de l'Institut Français d'Archeologie Orientale 55.  Cairo: Institut Français d'Archeologie Orientale. 

Legrain, Georges 

1929               Les temples de Karnak.  Paris: Vromant & Co.

 Ling, Ted

1992               "Ramesside Filial Piety."  Bulletin of the Australian Centre of Egyptology 3.  59-66. 

Lurson, Benot 

2003               "Israel sous Merenptah ou le Sort de l'Ennemi dans l'Egypt Ancienne."  Estrangers et Exclus dans Le Monde Biblique:  Colloque International a l'Universite Catholique de l'Quest. Angers.  Les 20 et 21 Fevrier 2002:  45-62.  Anger:  Universite Catholique. 

Manuelian, Peter Der 

1998               "Digital Epigraphy:   An Approach to Streamlining Egyptological Epigraphic Methods."  Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt  35:  97-113. 

Murnane, William J. 

1975               "The Earlier Reign of Ramesses II and His Coregency with Sety I."  Journal of Near Eastern Studies 34:  153-190. 

1976               "The Earlier Reign of Ramesses II:  Two Addenda."  Göttinger Mitzellen zur Agyptologische Beitrage  19:  41-43. 

1977               Ancient Egyptian Coregencies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 

1990               The Road to Kadesh.  Second edition revised.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press. 

1994               "Egyptian Monuments and Historical Memory:  New Light on the Ancients 'Uses of the Past' from the Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak."  KMT:  A Modern Journal of Egyptology (Fall: 1994):  15-24 & 88. 

1995               "Ramesses I and the Building of the Great Hypostyle at Karnak Revisited."  Varia Aegyptiaca  10: 163-168. 

1996               "Reconstructing Scenes from the Great Hypostyle Hall in the Temple of Amun at Karnak."  Essays in the Honor of Prof.  Dr.  Jadwiga Lipinska:  107-118.  Warsaw Egyptological Studies 1.  Warsaw: National Museum. 

2001†              "A Forest of Columns: The Karnak Great Hypostyle Hall Project." KMT:  A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt 12 no 3: 50-59. 

Murnane†, William and Brand, Peter J. 

2003               "The Karnak Hypostyle Hall Project:  Preliminary Report (Seasons 1992-2002).  Annales du Service des Antiquitiés de L'Égypte.  Forthcoming. 

A.                    The Great Hypostyle Hall Project in the Temple of Amun at Karnak, Vol.1, Part 2.  The Wall Reliefs:  Translations and Commentary.  Forthcoming. 

B.                    The Karnak Hypostyle Hall Project Volume II.  The Gateways.  Forthcoming. 

Nelson, Harold H. 

1949.              "Certain Reliefs at Karnak and Medinet Habu and the Ritual of Amenophis I."  Journal of Near Eastern Studies 8: 201-232, 310-345. 

1981               The Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak  Vol. 1.  Part 1.  The Wall Reliefs.  Edited by William J. Murnane.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press. 

Rainey, A. F. & Yurco, F. 

1991               "Which Picture is the Israelites?: Anson F. Rainey's Challenge & Frank J. Yurco's Response," Biblical Archaeology Review 17, no. 6 (November/ December,: 54-61.

Redford, Donald B.   

1986               "The Ashkelon Relief at Karnak and the Israel Stela."  Israel Exploration Journal 36:  188-200. 

1992               Egypt, Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times.  New Haven:  Princeton University Press. 

Rondot, Vincent 

1997               The Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak:  Les architraves.  2 vols.   Paris:  Editions Recherche sur les Civilisations.

Rondot, Vincent and Jean-Claude Golvin

1989               "Restaurations antiques B l'entrée de la salle hypostyle d'Amon-rL B Karnak." Mitteiligungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts. Abteilung Kairo 45: 249-259.

Roth, Ann M.

1983               "Some New Texts of Herihor and Ramesses IV in the Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 42: 43-53.

El-Saady, Hassan M.

1992               "The Wars of Sety I at Karnak: A New Chronological Structure." Studien zur Altägyptische Kultur 19: 285-294.

Schwaller de Lubicz, R.A. 

1999              The Temples of Karnak.  New York:  Innter Traditions Ltd. 

Seele, Keith C. 

1940               The Coregency of Ramses II with Seti I and the Date of the Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press. 

Simons, Jan Jozef 

1937               Handbook for the Study of Egyptian Topographical Lists Relating to Western Asia.  Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Singer, Itmar

1988              "Merneptah's Campaign to Canaan & the Egyptian Occupation of the Southern Costal Plain of Palestine in the Ramesside Period," Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 269: 1-10

Sourouzian, Hourig 

1989                Les Monuments du Roi Merenptah.  Mainz:  Phillip von Zabern.

Stager, L.

1985               "Merenptah, Israel and the Sea Peoples: New Light on an Old Relief," Eretz Israel 18: 56-64.

Traunecker, Claude 

1972               "Apercu sur les degradations des gres dans les temples de Karnak."  Cahiers de Karnak 5: 119-130. 

1985               "Observations faites au Ixe pylon:  Degradations internes et humidites." Cahiers de Karnak 8:  355-367. 

Wreszinski, Walter 

1923-28         Atlas zur Altagyptische Kulturgeschichte.  2 parts.  Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs.

Yurco, Frank

1986           "Merenptah's Canaanite Campaign," JARCE 23 (1986), 189-215.

1990           "3,200-Year-Old Picture of Israelites Found in Egypt," BAR 16, no. 5, (September/ October 1990), 20-38.