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Location:

  • Egypt, Marsa Alam
  • geo:24.630932,34.796879
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=10143

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Een uit de rotsen gehouwen tempel die stampt uit de laatste Egyptische dynastie, de Ptolemaeën. Tidens de Romeinse tijd is de tempel naar Romeinse maatstaven verbouwd

Beschrijving volgens http://www.egypt-archaeology.com/Sikait4b.html:

The large rock-cut temple was probably built in the Ptolemaic period and reshaped in Roman times. The courtyard in front of the temple entrance was constructed on top of a terrace, some 2 meters above the wadi floor. The first columnar hall once possessed four rock-cut columns, of which only one survives today. In the back of the temple, three altar rooms are cut out of the rock. The temple once had a front with two massive columns and a large inscription that covered the full width of the temple. Beside some inscriptions left by 19th century travellers, one also finds marker graffiti and scraped out messages, scribbled down by recent visitors. Left and right of the big temple, two shrines with separate walled courtyards and niches in the back were cut out of the rock.

Een uit de rotsen gehouwen tempel die stampt uit de laatste Egyptische dynastie, de Ptolemaeën. Tidens de Romeinse tijd is de tempel naar Romeinse maatstaven verbouwd

Beschrijving volgens http://www.egypt-archaeology.com/Sikait4b.html:

The large rock-cut temple was probably built in the Ptolemaic period and reshaped in Roman times. The courtyard in front of the temple entrance was constructed on top of a terrace, some 2 meters above the wadi floor. The first columnar hall once possessed four rock-cut columns, of which only one survives today. In the back of the temple, three altar rooms are cut out of the rock. The temple once had a front with two massive columns and a large inscription that covered the full width of the temple. Beside some inscriptions left by 19th century travellers, one also finds marker graffiti and scraped out messages, scribbled down by recent visitors. Left and right of the big temple, two shrines with separate walled courtyards and niches in the back were cut out of the rock.


Nearby

Sikait

Sikait - 30 BC - AD 640

Kleine tempel

Kleine tempel


This object was added by Kees van Noorel on 2012-10-22. Last update by Elżbieta on 2015-11-23. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/10143 . Download as RDF/XML, KML.
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