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Images of two important sites north of Luxor near the River Nile but usually visted as an extra tour either by road or a day cruise.
Dendara Painted Reliefs eg075513jhp Dendara Temple painted carving Mammisi Nectanebo ancient Egypt photograph wall situated in this monument dedicated to Goddess Hathor, north of Luxor which survives as one of the finest examples of the Late Period and the main buildings visited today date from fourth century BC in to the Roman period. It has a notable rare representation of the famous Cleopatra, some beautiful carvings and is relatively unscathed by the ravages of time, desecration and being dismantled for building materials. This photo is of colored reliefs on one of the walls in the Nectanebo Mammisi near the sanatorium to the right of the main temple entrance. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Dendara, Dendera, Temple, upright, history, archaeology, ancient, Egyptology, goddess, Ba, Hathor, Nectanebo, mammisi, birthhouse, sanitorium, coloured, colored, reliefs, paint, colors, colours, carving, decoration
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Abydos & Dendara
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Dendara Painted Reliefs eg075513jhp
Upload Date: 2007-10-20 00:00:00
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Dendara Temple painted carving Mammisi Nectanebo ancient Egypt photograph wall

situated in this monument dedicated to Goddess Hathor, north of Luxor which survives as one of the finest examples of the Late Period and the main buildings visited today date from fourth century BC in to the Roman period. It has a notable rare representation of the famous Cleopatra, some beautiful carvings and is relatively unscathed by the ravages of time, desecration and being dismantled for building materials. This photo is of colored reliefs on one of the walls in the Nectanebo Mammisi near the sanatorium to the right of the main temple entrance.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Dendara, Dendera, Temple, upright, history, archaeology, ancient, Egyptology, goddess, Ba, Hathor, Nectanebo, mammisi, birthhouse, sanitorium, coloured, colored, reliefs, paint, colors, colours, carving, decoration