Image Dendara Temple & Coffins 5507EG07JHP 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 & Coffins 5507EG07JHP Dendara Temple facade pronaos Goddess Hathor Egyptian Ptolemaic Cleopatra front coffins, 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. View from the main entrance and facade of the temple hypostyle hall with engaged sistraform columns-the foreground has granite lids from sarcophaguses. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Dendara, Dendera, Temple, front, facade, approach, landscape, landscape, history, archaeology, ancient, Egyptology, goddess, Hathor, pronaos, columns, propylon, blocks, hypostyle, hall, sarcophaguses, lids, coffins, faces, granite, foreground, close
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Abydos & Dendara
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Dendara Temple & Coffins 5507EG07JHP
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Dendara Temple facade pronaos Goddess Hathor Egyptian Ptolemaic Cleopatra front

coffins, 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. View from the main entrance and facade of the temple hypostyle hall with engaged sistraform columns-the foreground has granite lids from sarcophaguses.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Dendara, Dendera, Temple, front, facade, approach, landscape, landscape, history, archaeology, ancient, Egyptology, goddess, Hathor, pronaos, columns, propylon, blocks, hypostyle, hall, sarcophaguses, lids, coffins, faces, granite, foreground, close