Temple of Dakka
Location | Egypt |
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Coordinates | 22°48′3.59″N 32°32′44.69″E / 22.8009972°N 32.5457472°E |
Type | Settlement |
Site notes | |
Condition | restored |
Ad-Dakka (
pronaos with two rows of probably three columns."[2] During the Roman period, the Emperors Augustus and Tiberius further enlarged the structure with "the addition, at the rear, of a second sanctuary as well as inner and outer enclosure walls with a large pylon. The sanctuary contained a granite naos."[2] The Temple of Dakka was transformed into a temple fortress by the Romans and surrounded by a stone wall, 270 by 444 metres long, with an entrance along the Nile.[3]
A large dromos leads to the
Wadi es-Sebua, it lacked a front courtyard of sphinxes; however, its 12-metre-high pylon is in near perfect condition.[5] A 55-metre-long processional approach ran from the temple's pylon to a cult terrace at the Nile.[6] 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.[citation needed] In the 19th century these paintings were described as rather crude and already quite damaged representations of Christian saints.[7][8]
The temple of Dakka collapsed in 1908–1909 and was subsequently rebuilt by Alessandro Barsanti.[6]
Relocation
During the construction of the
Aswan dam in the 1960s, the temple was dismantled and moved to the site of New Wadi es-Sebua.[9] At the time of its removal, some reused stone blocks from Thutmose III, Seti I and Merneptah were discovered which originated from an earlier New Kingdom structure in or near Kubban.[2] The temple's pylon
is now separated from the remainder of the temple due to the missing enclosure walls of the open court.
Reliefs
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Relief depicting the Kushite king Arkamani presenting an offering to the gods
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Relief
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Relief
See also
- List of ancient Egyptian sites, including sites of temples
References
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- ^ Dieter Arnold, Nigel Strudwick & Sabine Gardiner, The Encyclopaedia of Ancient Egyptian Architecture, I.B. Tauris Publishers, 2003. p.65
- ^ a b c Arnold, Strudwick & Gardiner, p.65
- ^ Dieter Arnold, Temples of the Last Pharaohs, Oxford University Press, 1999. p.244
- ^ László Török, The Image of the Ordered World in Ancient Nubian Art, Brill, 2002. p.260
- ^ "Wadi es-Seboua: Temple of Dakka". Archived from the original on 30 September 2018. Retrieved 28 September 2008.
- ^ a b Arnold, Temples of the Last Pharaohs, p.244
- ^ Giuseppe Forni (1859): "Viaggio nell'Egitto e nell'Alta Nubia", p. 301
- ^ Isabella Frances Romer (1846): "A Pilgrimage to the Temples and Tombs of Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine, in 1845-6", 232
- ^ Wilkinson, Richard H. (2000). The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson. p. 219