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Kushite religious centre on the east bank of the Nile in northern Sudan, opposite the modern town of Dongola. Kawa is best known for Temple T, a sandstone structure dedicated to Amun and built between 690 and 664 BCE under the Kushite pharaoh Taharqa during Egypt's Twenty-fifth Dynasty. The temple was richly endowed, decorated with reliefs documenting Taharqa's building programme, and stocked with ritual furniture later excavated almost intact. Francis Llewellyn Griffith's Oxford Excavation Committee worked the site between 1929 and 1936, removing many of the finest objects to the Ashmolean Museum and the Sudan National Museum, including a series of bronze statues and gold-leaf attachments. Renewed work has been led by Derek Welsby of the British Museum since 1993. Granite rams that once lined the temple's processional way were taken north to the British Museum, where they sit today in the Sainsbury Gallery.
A southern pharaoh built a temple by the Nile, and the rams ended up in Bloomsbury.