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The Egyptian building of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus concentrated at Thebes (Karnak and Luxor) and Hermopolis (finishing the restoration launched under Dynasty XXX); in the late reign of Arrhidaeus and under Alexander [IV] it shifted to local temples (Sebennytos, Behbeit el-Hagar, Elephantine etc.). Its most conceptual part was the Theban building, probably a part of a program inaugurated by Nectanebo I and intended to reconstruct the processional ways providing for the ancient royal rites (in the first place the Opet Feast). The shift to the local temples can be explained by Egypt’s aspiring in mid-310s B.C. the independence from the Argeadai empire; hence, renovating the Theban royal rituals, an Argeadai king being their focus, was no longer a priority. There is a reason to believe that the building of this time was a deliberate, well-articulated course intended to provide for the ideological façade of the Macedonian rule.