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In the forecourt itself on the left, or western side, is the birth-house, or mammisi, which is similar in plan and decoration to those of Dendera and Edfu. The birth-house is an essential feature of the temples build during the Ptolemaic period. The concept of birth-houses may have originated with the representations in the temples of Deir el-Bahri and Luxor of the divine birth of Hatshepsut and of Amenhotep III. These depictions were an important justification for the divinity of the king, and they grew in importance with the spread of the Osiris cult. The birth-houses, designed to celebrate the rites related to the Osirian tradition of the child Horus, reached their full development during the Ptolemaic period.

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Author Jorge Láscar from Melbourne, Australia
Camera location24° 01′ 31.92″ N, 32° 53′ 02.55″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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