'She would have been fourteen at the time of the Opet festival.'

It has been determined that the Luxor temple holds great significance to the Opet festival.

But the most likely hypothesis is that this bird was positioned on the masthead of sacred boats used during the Opet Festival.

This text, narrated by Hatshepsut, describes a religious procession associated with the Opet Festival.

On the back of the third pylon, built by Amenhotep III, to the right the pharaoh is shown sailing the sacred barque during the Opet festival.

It was originally built to celebrate the jubilee (Hed-Sed) of Thutmose III, and later became used as part of the annual Opet Festival.

In earlier celebrations of the opet festival, the statues of the god proceeded down the avenue of sphinxes that connect the two temples, stopping at specially constructed chapels en route.

However, Alexander the Great did arrive at the temple of Amun, where the statue of the god was transferred from Karnak during the Opet Festival, the great religious feast.

As for his former wife, Aahmes, she had become a shadowy figure who sent him a letter from the Delta every new year, at the midsummer opet festival, with news of his favourite son, Heby.

The Beautiful Feast of Opet (or Opet Festival) was an Ancient Egyptian festival , celebrated annually in Thebes, during the New Kingdom period and later in time.

To the left is the Temple of Seti II with three small chapels that held the sacred barques of Mut, Amun and Khonsu during the lead up to the Opet Festival.

Shown with the same pointed nose that was characteristic of depictions of Hatshepsut, Thutmose III also is pictured participating in the processions of the Beautiful Feast of the Valley and the Opet Festival.

However, the most important temple festivals, like the Opet Festival celebrated at Karnak, usually involved a procession carrying the god's image out of the sanctuary in a model barque to visit other significant sites, such as the temple of a related deity.

Friezes on the wall describe the stages in the Opet Festival, from sacrifices at Karnak at the top left, through Amun's arrival at Luxor at the end of that wall, and concluding with his return on the opposite side.

Piye reacted quickly to this crisis in his Year 20 by assembling an army to invade Middle and Lower Egypt and visited Thebes in time for the great Opet Festival which proves he effectively controlled Upper Egypt by this time.

One of these was the Opet Festival, an extremely important ceremony during the New Kingdom, in which the image of Amun from Karnak visited the form of Amun worshipped at Luxor Temple, and both acted to reaffirm the king's divine rule.