• A mammisi (mamisi) is an ancient Egyptian small chapel attached to a larger temple (usually in front of the pylons), built from the Late Period, and associated...
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    The earliest extant (surviving) building in the compound today is the mammisi raised by Nectanebo II – last of the native pharaohs (360–343 BC). The...
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    dead. There were mystery plays in 13 acts on fertility in these temples. Mammisi Zahan, S. (2018). Mishor (Egypt). Kolkata, India: Aranyaman. pp. 51–52...
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    The god Khnum, accompanied by Heqet, moulds Ihy in a relief from the mammisi (birth temple) at Dendera Temple complex Early Dynastic Period (c. 3000...
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  • the Ptolemies. In the 1st century BC, Cleopatra VII (51–30 BC) built a mammisi and a sacred lake there in honour of her son, the very young Ptolemy XV...
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    Emperor Trajan in Pharonic aspect with hieroglyph name (), making offerings to Egyptian Gods, on the Roman Mammisi at the Dendera Temple complex, Egypt....
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  • Nubian king Arqamani, who contributed to the Temple of Arensnuphis and the mammisi, and his successor Adikhalamani, whose name has been found on a stela on...
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    Roman emperor Trajan making offerings to Egyptian Gods, on the Roman Mammisi at the Dendera Temple complex, Egypt....
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    displayed in the Louvre Museum in Paris. There are also Roman and pharaonic Mammisi (birth houses), ruins of a Coptic church and a small chapel dedicated to...
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    factores de degradación». Revista de Arqueología, 88 Jaramago. M. (1991) «¿Un Mammisi en el templo de Debod?». Boletín de la Asociación Española de Egiptología...
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    the Mut enclosure at Karnak. This sanctuary, later transformed into a mammisi (birth house) under the 21st Dynasty, celebrated the divine birth of the...
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    Roman Emperor Trajan (ruled 98–117 AD) making offerings to Egyptian Gods, on the Roman Mammisi at the Dendera Temple complex, Egypt....
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    deity, his wife, and their immature son. Satellite buildings, known as mammisis, were built in celebration of the birth of the local child deity. The child...
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    protection of Nubian women during childbirth, his image was found in a mammisi, or divine birth temple. His eminence in Kush far exceeded that in Egypt...
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    A Roman mammisi or chapel added to Dendera Temple, using the traditional Egyptian temple style....
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    covered kiosks in front of gateways, more elaborate column styles, and the mammisi, a building celebrating the mythical birth of a god. Though the characteristics...
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    assisting him at the pottery wheel, as seen in the wall relief of the mammisi of Nectanebo II. Khnum and Heqet can also be found together molding the...
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    Kushite king, Taharqa and during which time it became a birthing house, "mammisi", where Ancient Egyptians would celebrate the birth of the god Khonsu,...
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  • d’Archéologie Orientale. p. 297. ISBN 9782724704822. Chassinat, Emile (1910). Le Mammisi d'Edfou (in French). Cairo: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale....
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    Precinct of Amun-Re at Karnak, and it is believed that the earliest known mammisi, which was found at Dendera, was built by him. The cult of sacred animals...
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    the colonization of the country by the Roman Empire. A relief from the mammisi of Dendera shows the emperor Trajan in the traditional costume of Pharaoh...
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    offices, in Holbeck, Leeds, modelled on the Mammisi of the Dendera Temple complex, in 1836–1840. The Roman Mammisi at the Dendera Temple complex, Egypt Temple...
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    Bes carved on them that might have functioned as a divine birth house (mammisi). It was probably built by Natakamani and Amanitore (first century AD)...
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  • the convoy of Horus. From the representations on the north wall of the Mammisi of temple of Dendera, further references to the place Chemmis (modern Akhmim)...
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    Karnak Temple Lighthouse of Alexandria Library of Alexandria Luxor temple Mammisi Mastaba Serdab Art of ancient Egypt Amarna art Ancient Egyptian pottery...
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    be the case that these are, as is usual in so-called birth houses (like Mammisi), two different rooms with the other being a sanctuary (D3). This interpretation...
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  • (Brussels) Malay house Maltese Baroque architecture Mamluk architecture Mammisi Mandaloun Mandapa Mannerism Manor house Mansard roof Mansion Mansionization...
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    dedicated to Astarte; according to his interpretation, the building was a mammisi, a chapel-like building where rituals and ceremonies associated with the...
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  • (official) Maia (nurse) Maiherpri Malaqaye Malewiebamani Malkata Malqata Menat Mammisi Mandulis Manetho Manfred Bietak Man-prisoner (hieroglyph) Man-seated: arms...
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    representation of Harpocrates in front of three kneeling Rekhyt people in the Mammisi of Philae: Words to speak: Be silent four times and cheer four times, all...
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