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New Kingdom Egyptian temple on the west bank of the Nile in northern Sudan, built of sandstone and dedicated to the deified form of the pharaoh himself. Soleb Temple was commissioned by Amenhotep III in the late fourteenth century BCE and is the largest Egyptian-built temple south of Aswan. Its hypostyle hall once contained columns nearly 19 metres tall; ram-headed sphinxes from the site were later transported to Gebel Barkal by Piye and to Saint Petersburg by nineteenth-century collectors. The temple's topographical lists include one of the earliest external references to a place called "Yhw," which has drawn Egyptological attention as a possible early mention of the divine name later attested in Hebrew scripture. Excavations were directed by Michela Schiff Giorgini for the University of Pisa across the 1957–1977 seasons.
The pharaoh built a temple to himself on the southern frontier and signed the guest list with a name that would outlive every dynasty.