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    Dendera (Arabic: دَنْدَرة Dandarah; Ancient Greek: Τεντυρις or Τεντυρα; Bohairic Coptic: ⲛⲓⲧⲉⲛⲧⲱⲣⲓ, romanized: Nitentōri; Sahidic Coptic: ⲛⲓⲧⲛⲧⲱⲣⲉ, romanized: Nitntōre)...
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    The Dendera Temple complex (Ancient Egyptian: Iunet or Tantere; the 19th-century English spelling in most sources, including Belzoni, was Tentyra; also...
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    The Dendera light is a motif in the Hathor temple at Dendera in Egypt. According to the hieroglyphic text surrounding the pieces, it depicts statues referencing...
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    The sculptured Dendera zodiac (or Denderah zodiac) is a widely known Egyptian bas-relief from the ceiling of the pronaos (or portico) of a chapel dedicated...
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    vocalist and composer. He was the founding member of his band Orchestra Dendera Kings. He was known by many stage names, including "Chopper, "Mr Viscose"...
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  • Mammisi (section Dendera)
    including the Roman emperors. The most important surviving examples in Dendera, Edfu, Kom Ombo, Philae, El Kab, Athribis, Armant, the Dakhla Oasis etc...
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    supplanted an early crocodile god who was worshipped at Dendera in Upper Egypt to become Dendera's patron deity, and she increasingly absorbed the cult of...
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    engraved during the Ptolemaic period in an upper chapel of the Temple of Dendera. In Egyptian religion, the sacred and the secret are intimately linked...
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    "The Epic Tour of Furious Thunder" European tour with Darkest Era and Dendera. April - May 2014 - Australian Tour supported by Lagerstein. December 2014...
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    visible, creating a palimpsest-like effect of overlapping hieroglyphs. Dendera light Brand, Peter J. (2023). Ramesses II, Egypt's Ultimate Pharaoh. Lockwood...
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    could mandate the liberal consumption of beer. In various reliefs at Edfu, Dendera, and Behbeit, Nephthys is depicted receiving lavish beer offerings from...
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    The Ptolemaic Queen Cleopatra VII and her son by Julius Caesar, Caesarion, at the Temple of Dendera...
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  • included two signs – the Balance and the Scorpion, as evidenced in the Dendera Zodiac (in the Greek version the Balance was known as the Scorpion's Claws)...
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    Reliefs of Cleopatra and her son by Julius Caesar, Caesarion, at the Temple of Dendera...
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    what is known about his life comes from his mastaba burial tomb in the Dendera Necropolis, a few hundred metres south of the Temple to Hathor. This tomb...
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    with Roman copies of Ptolemaic sculpted works of art. The Dendera Temple complex, near Dendera, Egypt, contains Egyptian-style carved relief images along...
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    magnificence of its temples and its hereditary feud with the people of Dendera. Ombos was the first city below Aswan at which any remarkable remains of...
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    characterize every Egyptian astrological monument. Both the famous zodiacs of Dendera display their symbols, identified by Karl Richard Lepsius. The division...
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    his mouth. He was worshipped along with Horus and Hathor as a trio at Dendera, Ihy's main cult site, constructed early in the 4th dynasty. Emperor Augustus...
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    stela Bronze Sphinx of Thutmose III Cosmetic Spoon: Young Girl Swimming Dendera zodiac Great Sphinx of Tanis Khonsuemheb and the Ghost Raherka and Meresankh...
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    (politician) Mansour el-Essawy (politician) Omar Suleiman (politician) Dendera Hu Naqada culture "الجهاز المركزي للتعبئة العامة والإحصاء". "ﻋـــﺩﺩ ﺍﻟﺳﻛــﺎﻥ...
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    relief, as an adult pharaoh, with his mother on the Temple of Hathor at Dendera. His infant image appears on some bronze coins of Cleopatra. In addition...
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    town on the River Nile situated next to the famous Greco-Roman temples of Dendera. Also on the Nile, Luxor is a long-time tourist hotspot that in large part...
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    modelled on Ancient Egyptian architecture, particularly the Great Temple of Dendera (Tentyra). One author described it as "one of the strangest places Piccadilly...
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    one of several temples built during the Ptolemaic Kingdom, including the Dendera Temple complex, Esna, the Temple of Kom Ombo, and Philae. Its size reflects...
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    Greek and Babylonian astronomical systems culminating in the Zodiac of Dendera; it remains unclear when this occurred, but most were placed during the...
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    Ancient Egypt Online. Hoffman, Susanne M. "Preliminary Observations on the Dendera Zodiac (Egypt)" (PDF). Astronomy in Culture. "Anoukis" , Encyclopædia Britannica...
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    accompanied by Heqet, moulds Ihy in a relief from the mammisi (birth temple) at Dendera Temple complex Early Dynastic Period (c. 3000 BC) frog statuette (Cleveland...
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    Relief of Ptolemaic Queen Cleopatra VII and her son Caesarion at the Temple of Dendera, Egypt, 1st century BC...
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    possibly Sopdet, from the c. 1300 BC tomb of Seti I. Sopdet depicted in the Dendera Temple complex. A Hellenic bust of Sopdet, syncretized with Isis and Demeter...
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