Luxor - Temple of Luxor - Sanctuary of Alexander the Great

Beyond the birth room is a side room with three columns and poorly preserved reliefs, from which an arched doorway inserted at a later date leads into the Sanctuary of Alexander the Great, a room largely rebuilt in the reign of Alexander. The four columns supporting the roof were replaced by a chapel for the sacred barque of Amun, the walls of which were decorated internally and externally with reliefs depicting Alexander in the presence of Amun and his fellow deities, while the walls of the original chamber still show Amenophis III in the presence of the various Theban gods. A door in the north wall of the chamber leads into a small square room with four papyrus cluster columns. The reliefs in this room, in three rows, show Amenophis III