The Temple of Edfu is an Egyptian temple located on the west bank of the Nile in Edfu, Upper Egypt. The city was known in the Hellenistic period in Koinē...

west bank of the Nile River between Esna and Aswan, with a population of approximately 60,000 people. Edfu is the site of the Ptolemaic Temple of Horus and...

Luxor Temple and Edfu. Rituals to the god Amun were often carried out on the top of temple pylons. A pair of obelisks usually stood in front of a pylon...

for its "House of the Bennu" temple. In this role, Nephthys was given the name "Nephthys-Kheresket" and a wealth of temple texts from Edfu, Dendera, Philae...

The Edfu-Project is being undertaken with the primary goal of translations of inscriptions of an ancient temple of Edfu. In 1986, Professor Dr. Dieter...

wife Hathor. Temple of Edfu, Upper Egypt Ostracon depicting the pharaoh Ramesses IX presenting Maat Relief in the inner room of Hathor's temple in Deir el-Medina...

wearing the double crown. Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut Statue of Horus in the Temple of Edfu Falcon Horus, deity of Hierakonpolis, on a Naqada IIC jar...

and Nekhbet (symbolizing upper Egypt). Bas-relief on wall of Temple of Edfu, Egypt Ring of Ptolemy VI Philometor wearing the Pschent Double Crown, 3rd...

P. (1997). A Ptolemaic Lexicon: A lexicographical study of the texts in the Temple of Edfu. OLA 78. Leuven. ISBN 978-90-6831-933-0.{{cite book}}: CS1...

carried by boat to several temple sites to visit the gods of those temples. The endpoint of the journey was the Temple of Horus at Edfu, where the Hathor statue...

knives, Temple of Edfu, Ptolemaic period Re, in the form of a cat, smiting Apep with a knife. Papyrus of Hunefer, 19th dynasty Atum facing Apep, tomb of Ramesses...

festival in which an image of Hathor from the Dendera Temple complex was brought annually to visit the Temple of Edfu, the temple of her mythological consort...

entrance to the temple of Ramses III Heru-Behdeti ("Horus of Behedet") as a winged sun disk on the cornice of a pylon at the temple of Edfu The winged sun...

statues of the falcon god Horus behind a smaller depiction of Caesarion at the Temple of Edfu in Edfu, Upper Egypt A coin depicting Cleopatra VII with her son...

Ptolemaic temple of Edfu is dedicated to Horus the Elder and there he is called the son of Nut and Geb, brother of Osiris, and the eldest son of Geb. She...

walls." The date of this canon is disputed. Proscription ceased after the destruction of pagan temples. However, widespread use of Christian iconography...

Dendera, specifically on/in Hathor's temple, that can be connected to the nine dead deities at Horus's temple in Edfu. This would be due to the either parental...

Ptolemy VIII in the Temple of Edfu Nekhbet is a bird-like monster in Final Fantasy XII. Nekhbet appears in Rick Riordan's The Throne of Fire as a minor antagonist...

Ptolemy VIII, Temple of Edfu Stela depicting Wadjet (top right), and Nekhbet (top left), serving as protectors and unifiers of Egypt in to Stela of Tuthmosis...

supported by Porphyry. On the other hand, there is a dedication on the Temple of Edfu from December 5, 57 BC that inscribes Cleopatra Tryphaena's name alongside...

Ptolemaic period, Temple of Edfu Graves-Brown, Carolyn, Dancing for Hathor: Women in Ancient Egypt, Continuum 2010, p. 131 Robins, Gay, The Art of Ancient Egypt...

an inscription from the temple of Edfu: pitch, lotus essence, incense, wax, terebinth resin and aromatics. On the sixteenth of Khoiak, probably between...

those of the Greco-Roman period at Philæ, Edfu, Dendera, even though there is a 1,500-year gap between them. The decoration of the Ptolemaic temples is however...

Library of Alexandria, and the famous Pharos Lighthouse. Many well-preserved temples in Upper Egypt date from this era, such as the Temple of Edfu, the Temple...

with Bastet and cats, as indicated by an inscription at the Temple of Edfu: “Isis is the soul of Bastet”. In this period, cats were systematically bred to...

Kemp, Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization, Routledge 2005, ISBN 0-415-23549-9, p.25 Dieter Kurth, The Temple of Edfu: A Guide by an Ancient Egyptian...

construction projects such as the completion of the Temple of Edfu and establishment of the Dendera Temple, and stabilized an economy largely reliant on trade with...

large columns bearing the cartouches of Cleopatra and Caesarion. In the front entrance pylon of the Temple of Edfu, built by her father Ptolemy XII, Cleopatra...

city was destroyed. Temple of Edfu Archive/Library (237–57 B.C.) This library was an extension of the Temple itself. The walls of this chamber are bestrewn...

projects such as the Temple of Edfu and a temple at Dendera, and stabilized the economy. On 31 May 52 BC, Cleopatra was made a regent of Ptolemy XII, as indicated...