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English: A view of the Temple of Dakka in Nubia. This picture and another one of mine are used in the Wikipedia article on the temple.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Dakka It is a Greco-Roman Temple of Dakka, dedicated to Thoth, the god of wisdom in the ancient Egyptian pantheon. It was initially a small one-room shrine or chapel in the 3rd century BC but was enlarged by adding a pronaos (inner area of the portico) with two rows of probably three columns. During the Roman period, it was further enlarged with the addition of a second sanctuary as well as inner and outer enclosure walls with a large pylon. The Temple of Dakka was transformed into a temple fortress by the Romans and surrounded by a stone wall, 270 by 444 metres (886 x 1457 ft) long, with an entrance along the Nile. During the Christian period of Egypt, the facade of the pronaos was converted for use into a church, and Christian paintings were still visible here in the 20th century before the temple was enveloped by the Nile floods. |
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