Temple of Dendur

Dendur was a place in Lower Nubia, 75 km south of Aswan on the west bank of the Nile, which is now submerged in Lake Nasser. Here stood a small temple, which was donated by the Roman governor Petronius in the name Caesar Augustus around 15 BC in Egyptian style. The temple was the god Osiris, Isis his wife, their son Hor -pa - chered and the sons of a known Nubian chieftain Pe -Hor and Pede - ese consecrated.

The temple

The sandstone building was relatively small. From the pylon you came into a small courtyard and then to the actual temple (6.55 × 13 m). Had a first room at the entrance two fluted columns with Papyruskapitellen. Behind the two other rooms, of which the latter was the Holy of Holies were. The temple has been rededicated by King Eiparnome to a church in the 6th century. The Coptic inscription, with the Eiparnome made ​​known the command to convert the temple, located on the southern door of the pronaos. The date can be over 544, 559 or 574 AD are interpreted.

The temple was threatened in 1962 to sink in Lake Nasser. The Egyptian government gave the temple to the Americans in return for their contribution to the international campaign to save the Nubian monuments - in particular the temple of Abu Simbel. He was therefore dismantled and rebuilt in 1978 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.