Kiosk of Qertassi
unknown (Egyptian (ancient))
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Alternative Title
Kiosk of Kertassi
Date
-332-395Description
View within the kiosk, looking north towards the temple pylon; Originally built 30 km south of Aswan, relocated to New Kalabsha ca. 1970. "The kiosk, or peripteral chapel, appeared in Egypt at the beginning of the 12th Dynasty (ca. 1938-ca. 1756 BCE) as a derivative of the peripteral temple. The best-known examples, in the Greco-Roman period (332 BCE-395 CE) temples at Edfu and Dendara, are small, square shrines enclosed by pillars with elaborate capitals joined by screen walls." Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/ (accessed 1/19/2008)
Type of Work
chapel (room or structure); excavation (site)Subject
architectural exteriors, deities, Hathor (Egyptian deity), Ptolemaic, Greco-Roman
Rights
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