Klaus P. Kuhlmann's Das Ammoneion, published through the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo in 1988 and recorded in the source register under its English working title, The Temple of the Oracle at Siwa Oasis, is the scholarly archaeological study of the Temple of Amun at Siwa Oasis in Egypt's Western Desert, the oracle famously consulted by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE, based on Kuhlmann's own excavation and survey of the site. Its strength is that it is a specialist institutional excavation report from a body with a long record of Egyptological fieldwork, giving direct physical evidence for the temple's structure and history. Its limit is that as a German language excavation report it is written for a specialist archaeological audience, so a claim about the oracle's specific pronouncements or ritual procedure needs a separate ancient literary source, since Kuhlmann's study documents the building rather than the oracle's own words.
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Klaus P. Kuhlmann's excavation study of the Temple of Amun at Siwa Oasis, published through the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo in 1988, is a specialist institutional excavation report from a body with a long record of Egyptological fieldwork, treated at the top tier. NotesScholarly study of the Temple of the Oracle of Amun at Siwa Oasis.
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AuthorKlaus P. Kuhlmann
PublisherDeutsches Archaeologisches Institut Kairo
Publication Year1988
Source TypeExcavating institute
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Amun, Deities This source names Amun directly: "archaeological study of the Temple of Amun at Siwa Oasis in Egypt's Western Desert, the oracle famously consulted by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE, based on Kuhlmann's own excavation and survey of..."
Cairo, Cities This source names Cairo directly: "the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo in 1988 and recorded in the source register under its English working title, The Temple of the Oracle at Siwa Oasis, is the scholarly archaeological..."
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This source backs 22 claims across the atlas. As facts: 17 well-attested. As cited relationships: 4 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sacred Sites, 11 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 9 claims: 7 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Articles, 2 claims: 2 well-attested.
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