Barque shrine
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A barque shrine (also, "barque chamber") refers an elongated rectangular room, hall or building that lay before the temple naos on the main processional axis of an Egyptian temple and intended to house the divine barque of the temple deity.
The earliest barque shrines were originally a wooden canopy, subsequently recreated in stone construction in later, larger temple buildings. Unlike the naos, which was constructed monolithically, barque shrines were normally built of masonry.
One of the best known examples of a barque shrine is the Chapelle Rouge of Hatshepsut at Karnak.
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Bibliography
- Arnold, Dieter, "Barkenraum", LdÄ I, 625-626.
- Legrain, Georges [1917], "Le logement et transport des barques sacrées et des statues des dieux dans quelques temples égyptiens", BIFAO 13 (1917), pp.1-76.
