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Gallery Egypt - April 2005 The Temple of Hathor at Dendara

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The Temple of Hathor at Dendara

Date: 04/30/2005
Size: 34 items
dendara_checkpoint

dendara_checkpoint

A checkpoint on the way to Dendara. Check out the huge portrait of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. These things are all over Egypt...can you say cult of personality?

Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 1270
dendara_countryside

dendara_countryside

The drive on the way to Dendara

Date: 04/30/2005
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dendara_entrance

dendara_entrance

The entrance to the Temple of Hathor, the Egyptian goddess of fertility. This was started near the end of the reign of the Egyptian pharaohs. Construction was continued under the Ptolemies and completed by the Romans.

Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 1011
dendara_ruins

dendara_ruins

Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 956
dendara_columns_hathor

dendara_columns_hathor

Columns with the face of Hathor

Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 914
dendara_cleopatra

dendara_cleopatra

A relief of Cleopatra with Ptolemy XV, aka Caesarion, her son by Julius Caesar.

Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 979
dendara_ceiling

dendara_ceiling

Ceiling

Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 869
dendara_ceiling_2

dendara_ceiling_2

Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 881
dendara_ceiling_3

dendara_ceiling_3

Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 1060
dendara_crypt

dendara_crypt

The crypt beneath the temple

Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 957
dendara_crypt_2

dendara_crypt_2

Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 876
dendara_passage

dendara_passage

The little passageway we had to squeeze through to get into the crypt

Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 906
dendara_crypt_lindsay

dendara_crypt_lindsay

Me inside the crypt

Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 970
dendara_crypt_lindsay_2

dendara_crypt_lindsay_2

Self portrait inside the crypt

Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 862
dendara_crypt_reliefs

dendara_crypt_reliefs

Touching a relief in the crypt...uhhh oh

Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 1018
dendara_crypt_reliefs_2

dendara_crypt_reliefs_2

Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 950
dendara_crypt_reliefs_3

dendara_crypt_reliefs_3

Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 903
dendara_destroyed_reliefs

dendara_destroyed_reliefs

Early Christians destroyed most of the reliefs inside the temple because the Egyptian gods were pagans and all that stuff. Whatever, it would have been nice to see them before they were destroyed!

Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 877
dendara_graffiti_001

dendara_graffiti_001

Some graffiti by a 19th century tourist.

Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 874
dendara_relief

dendara_relief

Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 890
dendara_reliefs

dendara_reliefs

Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 912
dendara_ruins_4

dendara_ruins_4

Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 1076
dendara_ruins_5

dendara_ruins_5

Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 1051
dendara_ruins_6

dendara_ruins_6

Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 853
dendara_sacred_lake

dendara_sacred_lake

The Sacred Lake, now filled with palm trees

Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 918
dendara_statue

dendara_statue

This guy is cute

Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 702
dendara_wheel

dendara_wheel

A wheel

Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 892
dendara_dirty_romans

dendara_dirty_romans

Those dirty Romans and their pseudo-Egyptian hieroglyphics

Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 842
dendara_hathor_001

dendara_hathor_001

Columns with Hathor.

Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 840
dendara_dog

dendara_dog

A dog

Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 710
dendara_ruins_2

dendara_ruins_2

Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 671
dendara_ruins_3

dendara_ruins_3

Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 609
dendara_desert

dendara_desert

The desert outside the temple

Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 702
dendara_construction

dendara_construction

Some construction workers

Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 960
   
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