Pylon (architecture)

It consists of two pyramidal towers, each tapered and surmounted by a cornice, joined by a less elevated section enclosing the entrance between them.

In ancient Egyptian religion, the pylon mirrored the hieroglyph akhet 'horizon', which was a depiction of two hills "between which the sun rose and set".

[2] Consequently, it played a critical role in the symbolic architecture of a building associated with the place of re-creation and rebirth.

Pylons were often decorated with scenes emphasizing a king's authority since it was the public face of a building.

[2] The oldest intact pylons belong to mortuary temples from the Ramesside period in the 13th and 12th centuries BCE.