El-Lessiya

Just under 20 km (12.5 miles) upstream from El-Derr, and on the same side of the Nile, El-Lessiya was the site of a small rock-cut chapel of Thutmosis III which was moved in the salvage operations of the 1960s and now stands reconstructed in the Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy. Although only a single-room structure, the chapel is interesting in its decoration which includes scenes of the king before the Nubian god Dedwen and the deified Senwosret III. A niche in the rear wall of the chapel originally contained statues of Thutmosis with Horus of Miam (Aniba) and Satis of Elephantine; but these were damaged in the Amarna Period and subsequently renewed by Ramesses II to represent Amun, Horus of Aniba and himself.