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Koptos, the temple in the 17th Dynasty
Petrie found many reused blocks in the foundations of the later temple. Many of them belonged to a building of king Nubkheperre Intef . Many of the reliefs bear his name. The blocks come from at least seven walls (three walls with sunk relief and four walls with raised relief - there are four edges of a left corner). Assuming that the chapels were decorated on the in and outside, there must have been at least two of them.
It is not possible to reconstruct a building from the fragments with any certainty.
The following types of reliefs have been found:
Fragments of a gateway (sunk relief)
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fragments of other gateways (sunk relief)
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fragments from three walls (sunk relief)
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fragments of raised relief, from at least three scenes
on walls
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reconstruction of the temple
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See comments on reconstructions in Digital Egypt
Two further fragments are now in Berlin (Berlin 12486 and 12487): Roeder 1913: 137
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