Gates to the Temple of Medamud are two monumental gateways to the Ptolemaic-era phase of the Temple of Montu at

Medamud Medamud (, from ) was a settlement in ancient Egypt. Its present-day territory is located about 8 km east-north from Luxor. The Temple of Montu was located here. It was excavated by Fernand Bisson de la Roque in 1925, who identified sev ...

, located to the north of Luxor on the right bank of the Nile. They were excavated in 1939 by the French archaeologist

Alexandre Varille Alexandre Varille (12 March 1909, Lyon – 1 November 1951, Joigny) was a French Egyptologist. Life From a cultured family from Lyon, he studied Economics and Letters. During his studies he met Victor Loret, his Egyptology professor at the Univer ...

and are now in the collection of the

Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon The Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (french: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon) is a municipal museum of fine arts in the French city of Lyon. Located near the Place des Terreaux, it is housed in a former Benedictine convent which was active during the 1 ...

. The earlier of the two, the Gate of

Ptolemy III , predecessor = Ptolemy II , successor = Ptolemy IV , nebty = ''ḳn nḏtj-nṯrw jnb-mnḫ-n-tꜢmrj'Qen nedjtinetjeru inebmenekhentamery''The brave one who has protected the gods, a potent wall for The Beloved Land , nebty_hiero ...

, is only partly conserved but retains traces of its paintwork. Its bas-reliefs suggest it marked the entrance to an offerings room inside the temple. The later gate, the Gate of

Ptolemy IV egy, Iwaennetjerwymenkhwy Setepptah Userkare Sekhemankhamun Clayton (2006) p. 208. , predecessor = Ptolemy III , successor = Ptolemy V , horus = ''ḥnw-ḳni sḫꜤi.n-sw-it.f'Khunuqeni sekhaensuitef'' The strong youth whose f ...

, could be wholly reconstructed and probably marked one of the main entrances to the temple.

Sources

*Ch. Sambin, Les portes de Médamoud, Bulletin des Musées et monuments lyonnais 1988-3 category:Antiquities of the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon Archaeological discoveries in Egypt