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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 Chapel Union Disk eg9621515jhp Dendara Temple roof chapel union disk Hathor faces ancient Egyptian photograph roof 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. On the top of the Dendara roof is this small Chapel of the Union with the Disk in the SW angle of the temple with 12 Hathor headed columns and although no roof might have had removeable wooden one allowing for sunlight to revive statues placed in its precinct. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Dendara, Dendera, Temple, landscape, roof, chapel, union, disk, Hathor, headed, columns, screen, wall, history, archaeology, ancient, Egyptology, carved, carving, decoration, slide, scanned
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Abydos & Dendara
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Dendara Chapel Union Disk eg9621515jhp
Upload Date: 2007-11-30 22:58:15
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Dendara Temple roof chapel union disk Hathor faces ancient Egyptian

photograph roof 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. On the top of the Dendara roof is this small Chapel of the Union with the Disk in the SW angle of the temple with 12 Hathor headed columns and although no roof might have had removeable wooden one allowing for sunlight to revive statues placed in its precinct.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Dendara, Dendera, Temple, landscape, roof, chapel, union, disk, Hathor, headed, columns, screen, wall, history, archaeology, ancient, Egyptology, carved, carving, decoration, slide, scanned