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The back walls of the pylon have scenes of the yearly meetings of Horus and his consort Hathor, who traveled on a sacred barque (slender boat) from her temple at Denderah for the reunion on the Nile.
At the heart of the sanctuary, a small granite shrine once held the sacred barque of Horus himself.
The inner sanctum of the temple was aligned so that the first rays of the sun on 21 February and 21 October would fall on the sacred barque deposited here and on the statues of four gods (Ptah, Amun, Ramses II, and Ra-Herekhty), though scholars are still not sure what was so propitious about these dates.
The most recent attraction at the pyramid complex is a small museum housing the remains of a solar barque (a cedar longboat) which was found in 1954.