18.4830°N, 31.8170°E.
Kushite temple and town site on the west bank of the Nile in northern Sudan, opposite Gebel Barkal near modern Karima, built of sandstone and mud-brick. Sanam Abu Dom contains a major temple of Amun built by Taharqa around 680 BCE as the southern partner of his ritual landscape centred on Napata. The temple was excavated by Francis Llewellyn Griffith for the Oxford Excavation Committee between 1912 and 1913 and yielded an associated cemetery of more than 1,500 burials spanning the Napatan period. A large industrial-scale storage complex adjacent to the temple has been interpreted as a treasury or possibly a barracks. Renewed work since 2011 by Irene Vincentelli and Julie Anderson has reopened the magazines and identified evidence of gold processing on site. Across the river, Gebel Barkal's pinnacle was visible at every point of the temple axis.
The temple was sited so the sacred mountain framed the doorway, every dawn.