Место издания:Издательство Государственного Эрмитажа Санкт-Петербург
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Аннотация:The paper deals with the temple building in Egypt during the formal reigns of Alexander [III] the Great (332-323 B.C.), Philip Arrhidaeus (323-316 B.C.) and Alexander [IV], son of Alexander the Great and Roxane (316-305 B.C.). The activities of the period concentrate in Thebes (Karnak and Luxor, reconstruction of the bark sanctuaries in both complexes being the most important commitments), Hermopolis (here the reconstruction begun under Nectanebo I comes to its end and the temple acquires its appearance of the Hellenistic period), and, in the end of Arrhidaeus’ reign come down to various local temples (Sebennytos, Behbeit el-Hagar, Elephantine etc.). The most conceptual part of these activities was the Theban building: it seems to be a part of a vast program inaugurated by Nectanebo I (walls with gates around the Karnak complex, sphinxes’ alley between Karnak and Luxor, a chapel of Khonsu Neferhotep at the S.W. of the outer wall of Karnak) and continued by Nectanebo II (according to D.Arnold, the reconstruction of the Granite Sanctuary in Karnak was designed under him, though performed under Arrhidaeus). The concept of this building was the restoration of Theban royal rituals, the Opet Feast in the first place, and their processional infrastructure; later this program was recommenced under Ptolemy III Euergetes. The Hermopolitan building probably continued the local preference shown for this temple center by Nectanebo I. The transfer of the temple building to the local centers under Arrhidaeus (probably, in his last years) and under Alexander [IV] can be explained by the Satrap Ptolemy’s gaining in mid-310s B.C. the de facto independence from the Argeadai empire; hence, the Theban building renovating the royal rituals, with a king Argeadus as their focus, was no more his priority. There is a reason to believe that the priorities of the Egyptian building under the Argeadai and their change were a deliberate course intended to give the ideological façade to the Macedonian rule before the Egyptians and, perhaps, advised by the Greeks of the local origin.