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Architecture of the southern temple
Fig. 15 Sketch of the Taffeh temple and the southern temple at their original location from west to east (Schneider 1979, 93)
Based on the drawing of the southern temple in Schneider’s ‘Taffeh, rond de wederopbouw van
een Nubische tempel’, shown in Figure 14, it is possible to study the groundplan of the southern
temple. It is however not possible anymore to study any of the decorational elements or detailed
architecture, as these are no longer available.
The temple seems to have had an enclosure wall around it. Inside this walls was a structure
comprising of two rooms: one larger room with two (remaining) columns and a doorway in the
back leading to one smaller room which did not have any more doors or columns in it. The sketch
shows that the larger room only had two columns when it was drawn, however four more columns
were expected to have once been part of this room.
The room had one large opening in front and two openings on each side, east and west. Whether
these were interpreted as doors or were holes caused by the decay of the temple, is not clear on
this drawing. Also two wall panels were expected to have been part of the temple according to the
sketcher.