Dendera
Dendera
ⲛⲓⲧⲛⲧⲱⲣⲉ ⲛⲓⲧⲉⲛⲧⲱⲣⲓ دندرة | |
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Dendera (
Etymology
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jwnt[8] in hieroglyphs | ||||
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Era: Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BC) | ||||
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t3 n t3 rr(t)[1][9] in hieroglyphs | ||||||||
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Era: Ptolemaic dynasty (305–30 BC) | ||||||||
The original name of the town is
There's also an aberrant Coptic form ⲛⲓⲕⲉⲛⲧⲱⲣⲓ, which could be either dissimilation of a regular name or a confusion with Koine Κένταυροι.[11][12]
Temple complex
The Dendera Temple complex, which contains the
It was once home to the celebrated
In the vicinity of the temple complex a bakery dated to the First Intermediate Period was discovered by the French-Polish expedition from the
The area around the temple has been extensively landscaped and now has a modern visitor centre, bazaar and small cafeteria.
Ecclesiastical history
After Egypt became a Roman possession, the city of Tentyris was part of the Late
- Pachomius the Great, generally recognized as the founder of Christian cenobitic monasticism
- Serapion or Aprion, a contemporary and friend of the monk Pachomius, whose diocese boasted the celebrated convent of Tabenna.
The town was given its present Arabic name of Denderah during the late Ottoman Empire and ruled 6000 inhabitants in Qena (Qeneh) district.
Titular see
Under the Latin name Tentyris, the episcopal see was nominally revived as a
- Matteo Gaughren, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (O.M.I.) (1902.01.13 – 1914.05.30)
- Emile-Marie Bunoz, O.M.I. (1917.06.13 – 1945.06.03)
- André van den Bronk, Society of African Missions (S.M.A.) (1946.07.30 – 1952.05.15)
- Teodoro Bensch (1956.12.01 – 1958.01.07)
- Jean-Rosière-Eugène Arnaud, Paris Foreign Missions Society (M.E.P.) (1958.03.02 – 1972.09.11).
Climate
This area has a large amount of sunshine year round due to its stable descending air and high pressure. According to the
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Roman Emperor Domitian on the Northern gate of the Temple of Hathor.
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Roman Emperor Trajan at Dendera, Egypt
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Roman Emperor Trajan offers to Hathor and Ra-Harakhte, Dendera.
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Emperor Trajan as a Pharaoh making an offering to the Gods, in Dendera.[21]
Monuments
References – Notes
- ^ a b Gauthier, Henri (1929). Dictionnaire des Noms Géographiques Contenus dans les Textes Hiéroglyphiques Vol. 6. p. 23.
- ^ "Tentyris (Dendera)". Trismegistos. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
- ^ Philae-Data. "Iunet (Dendera)". ancientworlds.net. Archived from the original on 2008-05-17.
- ^ "Linguistic Bibliography". blonline.nl. Archived from the original on 2014-03-04.
- ^ "Félix Teynard - Dendérah (Tentyris), Temple d'Athôr - Face Postérieure - Cléopatre et Cæsarion - The Metropolitan Museum of Art". metmuseum.org.
- ISBN 9773053474.
- Belzoni.
- ^ Gauthier, Henri (1925). Dictionnaire des Noms Géographiques Contenus dans les Textes Hiéroglyphiques Vol. 1. p. 56.
- ^ Wallis Budge, E. A. (1920). An Egyptian hieroglyphic dictionary: with an index of English words, king list and geological list with indexes, list of hieroglyphic characters, coptic and semitic alphabets, etc. Vol II. John Murray. p. 1051.
- ^ Gardiner, Alan H. (1947). Ancient Egyptian Onomastica 2. Oxford University Press. p. 30.
- ^ Peust, Carsten (2010). Die Toponyme vorarabischen Ursprungs im modernen Ägypte. Göttingen. p. 33.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Černý, Jaroslav (1976). Coptic Etymological Dictionary. Cambridge University Press. p. 347.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-134-66525-9.
- ISBN 9782713101687.
- ^ "Dendera". pcma.uw.edu.pl. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
- ^ Łukaszewicz, Adam (2003). "Dendera: Interim communiqué" (PDF). Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean. 14.
- ^ Tentyris at catholic-hierarchy.org.
- ^ "Dandara, Egypt Köpen Climate Classification (Weatherbase)". Weatherbase.
- ^ mondial, UNESCO Centre du patrimoine. "Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods - UNESCO World Heritage Centre". UNESCO Centre du patrimoine mondial (in French).
- ^ mondial, UNESCO Centre du patrimoine. "Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods - UNESCO World Heritage Centre". UNESCO Centre du patrimoine mondial (in French).
- ISBN 978-90-5867-239-1.
Sources and external links
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Tentyris". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- GigaCatholic, listing the titular bishops