le temple de dendara

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Hathor's Temple at Dandara was interesting in a very different way to the temples at Abydos. A classic temple design, the one at Dandar is unique in Egypt for having a complete and accessible roof. We only had 1 hour, so it was a brief run around, but structurally it is intriguing.

[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذا الرابط]A grand hypostyle court yard greets you on entry with 24 columns topped with the cow faced god Hathor gazing down. Unfortunately here and throughout the rest of the temple there has been extensive defacing and smoke damage.




























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It was one continual maze and the best thing about Dandara is exploring. A set of square ramps bring you up onto the roof and we had hoped to go all the way to the top of the high entrance way wall, but the stone steps are broken and the guards wouldn't let you up the iron ones. There were quite a few images of Nuit on the ceilings of the roof rooms and descending back to ground level we explored the many rooms of the temple. There were the weird meditating guys sitting in the corners of the rooms again, but they hadn't seemed to make it down into the crypt.

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At first we weren't too sure about going down a little ladder into a very small hole with a gate at the top which looked like it could be locked, but despite the baksheesh it was definitely worth it. The crypt is actually quite long and is the only place not defaced by the Coptic Christians. There are some great scenes down there, but all without colour. We found a few other hidey holes, like the ladder going to no where from one room (it led to a small inset room for a statue of a god). I love the feeling of being in a computer game that I get from all of these temples.

Back in Luxor we ended the day exploring another side of town and found a cheap place with decent food. The best part was not getting charged for all of the extras, very unlike in Turkey. The lemon juice all over Egypt is great and I think they must mix it with fresh syrup from the cane sugar, we'll definitely miss that. Walking back we again was stacks of shops with guys ironing, it's the odd scenes like this that really bring home the fact that you're in a different country.

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