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Philae [site]

unknown (Egyptian (ancient))
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URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/117780
Date
-380-200
Description
The north tip of the island, looking northeast, showing the Temple of Augustus (foreground) and the Roman Gate (beyond); Philae was an island situated immediately south of Aswan in Upper Egypt, which was the original location of an ancient temple of the goddess Isis, surrounded by associated cult buildings. The earliest surviving parts of the temple date from the reign of Nectanebo I (reigned 380-362 BCE), and it was subsequently extended and enlarged until the 2nd century CE. Between 1972 and 1980, in an internationally financed rescue operation mounted by UNESCO, the buildings of Philae were transferred to the higher ground on the neighbouring island of Agilqiyya. In the course of this work some 300 blocks from an older construction, dating to the time of the 26th Dynasty ruler Amasis (reigned 570-526 BCE), were found in and around the later (Ptolemaic) 2nd pylon. These reliefs of Amasis show that there was already a cult of Isis on Philae in the 26th Dynasty. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/ (accessed 1/19/2008)
Type of Work
excavation (site); temple
Subject
architectural exteriors, death or burial, deities, rulers and leaders, Egypt--Religion, Ptolemaic
Rights
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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