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Images of two important sites north of Luxor near the River Nile but usually visted as an extra tour either by road or a day cruise.
Dendara Sacred Lake Steps eg98331 Dendara Temple Sacred Lake steps inside ancient Egyptian Ptolemaic palm trees photo is located north of Luxor and survives as one of the finest examples of the Late Period and the main buildings visited today date from fourth century BC in to the Roman period. It has a notable rare representation of the famous Cleopatra, some beautiful carvings and is relatively unscathed by the ravages of time, desecration and being dismantled for building materials. This photo is of the sacred lake steps which take one into a deep walled catchment area now dry but filled with palm trees. It would have been used for rituals conducted during the Feast of Osiris. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Dendara, Dendera, Temple, Sacred, Lake, Steps, Feast, Osiris, palm, trees, upright, history, archaeology, ancient, Egyptology, Ptolemy, Ptolemaic, Pharoah, slide, scanned
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Abydos & Dendara
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Dendara Sacred Lake Steps eg98331
Upload Date: 2007-11-30 22:58:15
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Dendara Temple Sacred Lake steps inside ancient Egyptian Ptolemaic palm

trees photo is located north of Luxor and survives as one of the finest examples of the Late Period and the main buildings visited today date from fourth century BC in to the Roman period. It has a notable rare representation of the famous Cleopatra, some beautiful carvings and is relatively unscathed by the ravages of time, desecration and being dismantled for building materials. This photo is of the sacred lake steps which take one into a deep walled catchment area now dry but filled with palm trees. It would have been used for rituals conducted during the Feast of Osiris.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Dendara, Dendera, Temple, Sacred, Lake, Steps, Feast, Osiris, palm, trees, upright, history, archaeology, ancient, Egyptology, Ptolemy, Ptolemaic, Pharoah, slide, scanned