Trajan's Kiosk at Philae Temple - Ancient Egyptian Monument [Agilkai Island, Near Aswan, Egypt, Arab States, Africa] .
Philae Temple was dismantled and reassembled (on Agilika Island about 550 meters from its original home on Philae Island) in the wake of the High Dam. The temple complex is in a beautiful setting which has been landscaped to match its original site. It's various shrines and sanctuaries, which include The Vestibule of Nectanebos I (used as the entrance to the island), the Temple of the Emperor Hadrian, a Temple of Hathor, Trajan's Kiosk (Pharaohs Bed), a birth house and two pylons celebrate all the deities involved in the Isis and Osiris myth. At night there is a Sound and Light Show, an experience where floodlit buildings are silhouetted against the volcanic rocks and water surrounding them. The most ancient are the remains of a temple for Hathor built in the reign of Nectanebo I during 380-362 BCE, was approached from the river through a double colonnade. Nekhtnebef is his Homen and he became the founding pharaoh of the thirtieth and last dynasty of native rulers when he deposed and killed Nefaarud II. Hathor is named alternatively, Athor, and was associated with their goddess, Aphrodite, by the Greeks. Although antiquities on the island date between the 26th Dynasty and the Roman Period, most of the work is that of the Romans. This was a time of immense popularity of the Goddess Isis, and this - her island, where pilgrims would come from all over the Mediterranean. Construction on the island took place over an 800 year span, and it was one of the last strongholds of Ancient Egyptian Religion which continued to flourish here into the 6th Century. When the Temples where finally closed by Justinian in 550, it ended 4,000 years of worship of the pagan gods. The Philae Temple complex, prior to its removal and restoration, was situated next to Biga Island. To the ancient Egyptians, Biga was the sacred mound, the first ground created by Nun out of Chaos. This was the legendary burial place of Osiris. This photograph is part of the Imagine Collection, hosted by Alamy.
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Location: Agilkai Island, Near Aswan, Egypt, Arab States, Africa. .
Photo credit: © Al Pidgen / Imagine Images / Alamy / Afripics
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