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The Dendera Temple complex (Ancient Egyptian: Iunet or Tantere; the 19th-century English spelling in most sources, including Belzoni, was Tentyra; also spelled Denderah [1]) is located about 2.5 kilometres (1.6 miles) south-east of Dendera, Egypt.
The Dendera Temple complex, which contains the Temple of Hathor, is one of the best-preserved temples, if not the best-preserved one, in all of Upper Egypt. The whole complex covers some 40,000 square meters and is surrounded by a hefty mud brick wall.
The Dendera zodiac as displayed at the Louvre Denderah zodiac with original colors (reconstructed). The sculptured Dendera zodiac (or Denderah zodiac) is a widely known Egyptian bas-relief from the ceiling of the pronaos (or portico) of a chapel dedicated to Osiris in the Hathor temple at Dendera, containing images of Taurus (the bull) and Libra (the scales).
The Dendera light is a motif in the Hathor temple at Dendera in Egypt. According to the hieroglyphic text surrounding the pieces, it depicts statues referencing part of the Egyptian creation myth . The temple, especially its crypts, contain several reliefs depicting statues of Harsomtus , sometimes syncretized with Ra , in the form of an ...
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 temples are the Dendera Temple complex (Temple of Hathor pictured), Temple of Kom Ombo, Khnum Temple in Esna, and the Temple of Edfu. [39] Necropolises of Middle Egypt, from the Middle Empire to the Roman period Minya: 2003 ii, iii, vi (cultural)
Bauurkunde des Tempels von Dendera (1865) – Book on the Dendera Temple complex. Geographische Inschriften altägyptischer Denkmähler (4 vols., 1865 1885) – Geographical inscriptions of ancient Egyptian monuments. Altägyptische Kalenderinschriften (1866) – Egyptian calendar inscriptions. Altägypt.
The famous Roman mammisi – the less ancient one associated with the Dendera Temple complex – was built by Augustus immediately after his conquest of Egypt (31 BC). The murals show Augustus' far successor Trajan at the sacrificial ceremony for Hathor and are among the most beautiful in Egypt.