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  2. Dendera Temple complex - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Dendera - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Dendera zodiac - Wikipedia

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    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).

  5. Mysteries of Osiris - Wikipedia

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    The course of the ceremonies is attested by various written sources, but the most important document is the Ritual of the Mysteries of Osiris in the Month of Khoiak, a compilation of Middle Kingdom texts engraved during the Ptolemaic period in an upper chapel of the Temple of Dendera. In Egyptian religion, the sacred and the secret are ...

  6. Dendera light - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. File:Temple of Hathor, Dark interior, Dendera, Egypt.jpg

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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.

  8. Mammisi - Wikipedia

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    The most important surviving examples in Dendera, Edfu, Kom Ombo, Philae, El Kab, Athribis, Armant, the Dakhla Oasis etc. [1] [2] are from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods in Egypt; [13] but the first one, in Dendera, dates back to the 30th dynasty Pharaoh Nectanebo I (379/378–361/360 BC), one of the last native rulers of Egypt.

  9. File:Temple of Hathor, Columns 2, Dendera, Egypt.jpg

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    English: The Dendera 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.