Image Dendara Temple Roof View EG9621519jhp by Jim Henderson

 
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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 Temple Roof View EG9621519jhp Dendara Temple basilica mammisi Nectanebo Roman roof view ancient Egypt layout located north of Luxor 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 is a useful overview of the remains of the ruins passed on the approach into the main temple from the monumental Roman north gate the two mammisi, the Roman one in the background and the Nectanebo one foreground with the Coptic Basilica in the centre and to the very bottom left are the reamins of the sanitorium with its 11 mudbrick walled rooms. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Dendara, Dendera, Temple, north, roof, view, overview, layout, mudbrick, enclosure, wall, landscape, history, archaeology, ancient, Egyptology, Hathor, basilica, Coptic, mammisi, Nectanebo, Roman, columns, carved, sanitorium, reliefs, carving, decoration
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Abydos & Dendara
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Dendara Temple Roof View EG9621519jhp
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Dendara Temple basilica mammisi Nectanebo Roman roof view ancient Egypt

layout located north of Luxor 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 is a useful overview of the remains of the ruins passed on the approach into the main temple from the monumental Roman north gate the two mammisi, the Roman one in the background and the Nectanebo one foreground with the Coptic Basilica in the centre and to the very bottom left are the reamins of the sanitorium with its 11 mudbrick walled rooms.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Dendara, Dendera, Temple, north, roof, view, overview, layout, mudbrick, enclosure, wall, landscape, history, archaeology, ancient, Egyptology, Hathor, basilica, Coptic, mammisi, Nectanebo, Roman, columns, carved, sanitorium, reliefs, carving, decoration