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Plan of Hathor Temple "Gate of Domitian and Trajan" northern entrance of the Temple of Hathor, in Dendera, Egypt. [3] [4] Roman Emperor Trajan as a Pharaoh making an offering to the Gods, in Dendera, Egypt. [5] The temple that dominates this complex, the structure that commands the attention of those who visit, is the Temple of Hathor.
English: Dendera temple construction is estimated at the 1st century BC. The temple, dedicated to Hathor, is one of the best preserved temples in all Egypt. Subsequent additions were added in Roman times. Great stone roof and columns, dark chambers, underground crypts, twisting stairways, all carved with hieroglyphs. Dendera, Qena, Egypt.
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English: Dendera temple construction is estimated at the 1st century BC. The temple, dedicated to Hathor, is one of the best preserved temples in all Egypt. Subsequent additions were added in Roman times. Great stone roof and columns, dark chambers, underground crypts, twisting stairways, all carved with hieroglyphs. Dendera, Qena, Egypt.
The present Temple of Hathor dates back to July 54 BC, at the time of Ptolemy XII of the Ptolemaic dynasty, [13] and was completed by the Roman emperor Tiberius, but it rests on the foundations of earlier buildings dating back at least as far as Khufu (known as the Great Pyramid builder Cheops, the second Pharaoh of the 4th dynasty [c. 2613–c ...
The campus' centerpiece is a larger temple, called the Akshardham, which measures almost 90,000 square feet, reaches 191 feet into the sky and was made from 1.9 million cubic feet of marble and ...
The Temple of Hathor at Dendera is one of Egypt's best preserved and most beautiful ancient shrines. This magnificent edifice dates to the Ptolemaic period, late in Egyptian history, though the site long had been the cult centre for the goddess Hathor for centuries before (the earliest extant remains date to c360BC but a temple is recorded here ...
Size of this preview: ... English: The Dendera temple, dedicated to Hathor, is one of the best preserved temples in all Egypt. Subsequent additions were added in ...