Disembarking at Edfu |
The Abercrombie & Kent Nile Explorer |
Remains of the mud brick walls surrounding the Temple of Edfu, |
Sphinx outside the Temple of Edfu |
Temple of Horus at Edfu, built by Ptolemy III starting in 237 BC |
Old buildings from the village of Edfu near the temple |
Temple of Horus, Edfu, is the 2nd largest in Egypt after Karnak |
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First Pylon of the Temple of Horus at Edfu |
Detail of the west tower of the First Pylon |
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First Pylon, 36m high |
First Pylon of Ptolemy XII, completed in 57 BC |
Horus wearing the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt |
Ptolemy XII, father of Cleopatra |
First Pylon |
Horus |
First Pylon |
Ptolemy XII |
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The gods Maat, Osiris, Mut, Thoth and Anedjti |
Ptolemy XII facing Horus the Elder, Hathor, Montu (god of war), Harsomtus (Horus the Younger), and Sekhmet |
Protection symbols in the doorway over the entrance in the First Pylon, Edfu |
Granite statue of Horus in falcon form |
Hathor wearing a composite crown |
Horus |
Granite Horus |
Granite Horus in falcon form |
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Granite Horus |
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The goddess Hathor, Edfu |
Granite Horus |
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Great Court and the facade of the pronaos (hypostyle hall), Temple of Horus at Edfu |
Horus in falcon form, Great Court |
Outer Hypostyle Hall from the Great Court, Edfu |
Blank cartouche waiting for a Pharoah |
The facade of the pronaos with Graeco-Roman screen walls |
Horus of Edfu |
Black granite Horus |
Horus |
Colonnade, Great Court, Edfu |
Horus |
Outer hypostyle hall, Edfu |
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Outer Hypostyle Hall, Edfu |
Looking from the Outer Hypostyle Hall through the Inner Hypostyle Hall to the Offering Chamber and Sanctuary of Horus |
Main axis of Temple of Horus |
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Pharoah with Seshet, Thoth's consort, goddess of writing and measurement, and Horus |
Horus embracing Pharoah |
Scorched ceiling of Outer Hypostyle Hall from medieval fires |
Nut, the sky goddess |
Recipies for perfumes and aromatic oils used in temple rituals in the temple laboratory |
Temple laboratory, Edfu |
Scorched ceiling of the Inner Hypostyle Hall |
Horus on one of the massive columns of the Inner Hypostyle Hall |
Inner Hypostyle Hall, Edfu |
High priest cloaked in a leopard skin, Offering Chamber |
Hathor and Horus |
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Stairway on the west side of the Offering Chamber |
Relief of Min, west side of Offering Chamber |
Min, god of fertility |
Passage around the Sanctuary of Horus |
Reproduction of a processional barque, Temple of Horus, Edfu |
Sanctuary of Horus, the Holy of Holies |
Monolithic naos of polished syenite, Nectanebo II (30th Dyn) |
Sanctuary of Horus, the Holy of Holies |
The Passage of Victory around the outside of the temple depicts the battle between Horus and Seth |
Passage of Victory, Edfu |
One of the few undefiled reliefs in the Passage of Victory around the outside of the Temple of Horus |
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Pharoah harpooning Seth, who is depicted as a small hippo |
Left, Isis and Horus, right Horus and Ra |
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Hapy, the Nile god |
A small antelope |
A pair of ankhs |
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Horus |
Horus |
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Horus |
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Isis and Osiris |
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Baboons greetings the sunrise, Edfu |
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Hathor and Pharoah |
Priests carrying a small shrine |
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Horus |
Blank cartouche - rapid turnover in Pharoahs |
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Edfu |
Edfu First Pylon |
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Sphinx near the temple at Edfu |
City of Edfu |
Modern Edfu |
Back to the boat |