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Beit el-Wali Rock-cut temple
Beit el-Wali Rock-cut temple on the west bank of the Nile in Lower Nubia, which was dedicated to Amun-Ra and founded in the reign OfRAMESES II (1279-1213 BC). The reliefs were copied by the German Egyptologist Giinrher Roeder in 1907, although casts were made by Robert Hay in the 1820s. The site was not comprehensively studied until the work of a joint expedition of the University of Chicago and the Swiss Institute in Cairo during the 19605. Soon afterwards, the temples at Beit el-Wali and nearby KALABSHA were moved to New Kalabsha, 45 km to the north, in order to save them from the rising waters of Lake tasser (see AS\VAN HIGH DAM). The reliefs include depictions of the siege of a Syrian city, the capture or a Nubian village and the bringing of Nubian tribute into the presence of the king, painted plaster casts of which are displayed in the collection of the British Museum
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