Brugsch, Heinrich: Egypt under the pharaohs: a history derived entirely from the monuments (London, 1891)

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of her father and of her ancestors in Apet. The
Stage-Temple of Deir-el-Bahari lay, doubtless, nearer
to her heart than the good old custom of continuing
the buildings at the imperial temple of Apet in honour
of the gods and of her ancestors.

The magnificent building at the foot of the steep
wall of rock which descended by broad steps to the
plain in the direction of the Nile,—the wonderful
structures of many-coloured colonnades and richly
painted wall-surfaces,—must naturally have accorded
better with the mind and taste of a queen who loved
art, than the solemn though stately buildings of the
temple of Amen, the design of which had long been
marked out by an old ground-plan of former kings.

Whatever other architectural works Tehuti-mes HI.
caused to be erected on the territory of the ' great
city' (M-aa) we must pass over in silence, since only
ruins and fragments prove their existence, and no
important historical records are connected with them.

In conclusion, we will only remark upon the re-
storation of an older temple, which had fallen into
decay, and which lay in ruins on the land of the
town of Medinet Habu. Tehuti-mes erected an entirely
new temple structure, of hard stone, round the newly
completed Khesem, or ' holy of holies.'

He restored it as a lasting building, when he had found that
it was hastening to decay,

as a text on the spot says of it. Another inscription at
the same place says :—

He erected this memorial-building to his father, the king of the
gods, Amen-Ra, for he caused this great house of the gods to be
constructed on the site of the ruins of the west district. It is the
splendid seat of Amen (built) by Tehuti-mes.

Victorious wars during the long and fortunate
reign of a Pharaoh always enabled him to execute