Dendara Complex; Roman Mammisi
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Alternative Title
Dendera Complex; Roman Birth House
Date
100-117Description
The south colonnade, showing reliefs on the inter-columnar wall; The oldest building [the Old Birth House] in the main temple complex, and the oldest such structure still standing, is the mammisi (birth house) of Nectanebo I (reigned 380-362 BCE). Redecorated early in the Ptolemaic period (304-30 BCE), it was replaced by a larger birth house decorated in the early 2nd century CE under Trajan and Hadrian. [This building]. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/ (accessed 1/19/2008)
Type of Work
excavation (site); chapel (room or structure)Subject
architectural exteriors, deities, rulers and leaders, Egypt--Religion, Roman Empire, Ptolemaic, Greco-Roman
Rights
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