Station L2

Colonnade L 2

The rear part of the temple is not well preserved. Most of the columns are destroyed as well as the door at the back of which just a few stone courses are left. This door gave a wider public access to the colonnade and the three rear chapels.

On the outer side of the chapels, only preserved in the eastern part, there is a procession of Nile-gods in the base (soubassement) lead by the king wearing the Upper Egyptian crown. The king addresses the temple gods Min-Re, the child god Horus-senedjem-ib and the lion-headed Repit. All these offering bearers are personifications of bodies of water, e.g. the source of the Nile at Elephantine in the very south of Egypt or the Mediterranean sea in the north.