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Temple Complex at Kom Ombo

unknown (Egyptian (ancient))
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URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/117105
Date
-180-100
Description
Portal within the temple, showing reliefs and surmounted by a concave cornice made of uraeus (serpents); Kom Ombo is a site on a promontory of the west bank of the Nile, between Aswan and Edfu. Very little remains of the ancient Egyptian city of Ombos, which in Ptolemaic times (ca. 332-30 BCE) was capital of the 1st nome of Upper Egypt. However, the temple complex, dedicated to the crocodile-god Sebek [Sobek] and the hawk-god Haroeris (an aspect of Horus), is well preserved. The main temple was first constructed in the reign of Ptolemy VI Philometor (reigned 180-145 BCE), but its decoration continued throughout the Ptolemaic era (particularly in the reign of Ptolemy XII Auletes; ca. 80-51 BCE) and the period of Roman rule (Augustus, Tiberius, Domitian and Trajan; ca. 30 BCE-117 CE). Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/ (accessed 1/18/2008)
Type of Work
excavation (site); temple; chapel (room or structure)
Subject
architectural exteriors, rulers and leaders, Egypt--Religion, Roman Empire, Ptolemaic, Imperial (Roman)
Rights
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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