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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 Roof View eg075575jhp Dendara Temple east roof enclosure wall gate Roman Egypt photo desert view from this monument located north of Luxor surviving 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 view from the roof looking eastwards to the remains of the mudbrick enclosure wall and a large monumental gate dating from the Roman period probably from a nearby town and temple complex dedicated to Horus and was the appraoch to the small Iseum, birth temple to Isis located at the rear of the main Hathor Temple. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Dendara, Dendera, Temple, landscape, desert, mountains, east, enclosure, wall, mudbrick, Roman, gate, history, archaeology, ancient, Egyptology, Hathor, carved, decorated, solar, disc, Iseum, Isis, town
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Abydos & Dendara
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Dendara Roof View eg075575jhp
Upload Date: 2007-10-20 13:32:29
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Dendara Temple east roof enclosure wall gate Roman Egypt photo

desert view from this monument located north of Luxor surviving 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 view from the roof looking eastwards to the remains of the mudbrick enclosure wall and a large monumental gate dating from the Roman period probably from a nearby town and temple complex dedicated to Horus and was the appraoch to the small Iseum, birth temple to Isis located at the rear of the main Hathor Temple.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Dendara, Dendera, Temple, landscape, desert, mountains, east, enclosure, wall, mudbrick, Roman, gate, history, archaeology, ancient, Egyptology, Hathor, carved, decorated, solar, disc, Iseum, Isis, town