Dendera Temple was constructed as Greco-Roman temples in shape and nowadays the modern town is built on the ancient site of Dendera which means a Divine Pillar and known with that name during the Greek time.
Dendera Temple was constructed as Greco-Roman temples in shape and nowadays the modern town is built on the ancient site of Tentyra which means a Holy Pillar and known with that name during the Greek time.
Scholars said that this name may be associated with the Greek Aphrodite who was the goddess of beauty in Greek civilization.
Hathor was the goddess of joy and love. Each year she was transported by boat to Edfu to be reunited with god Horus. The celebration of Dendera followed, with which the divine union was celebrated. Every first day of the year, the statue of Hathor was carried along the magnificent staircase west of the temple to the open kiosk on the roof to be born again by the sun.
There’s a necropolis that comprises tombs from the Early Dynastic Period and the complex itself consists of:
Hathor temple (the main temple)
Temple of the birth of Isis, Goddess of Magic in Ancient Egypt religion
Sacred Lake
Sanatorium
Mammisi of Nectanebo II, the 3rd and the last king of the 30th dynasty
Christian Basilica
Roman Mammisi
A Barque shrine
Gateways of Domitian and Trajan
The Roman Kiosk
The commanding building in the complex is the Temple of Hathor. This temple has been changed on the same site starting as far back as the Middle Kingdom and continuing right up until the time of the Roman emperor Trajan. The existing structure began construction in the late Ptolemaic period, and the hypostyle hall was built in the Roman period under Tiberius. You can book our Tour to Dendera and Abydos from Luxor or an Overnight Tour to Abydos, Dendera, and Luxor from Cairo, or you can browse our variety of tours in Egypt like:
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