The caption on this 1903 image reads: “Colored reliefs carved in Great temple at Philae.” It appeared in the book History of Egypt by French Egyptologist Gaston Maspero. The island of Philae was located in the Nile River at the First Cataract, south of the present Aswan dam; it is now totally submerged, following the construction of the Aswan dam. This temple, thought to be the single most beautiful preserved ancient Egyptian temple, housed a mammisi, or birth house, built to celebrate the birth of Harpocrates to Isis and Osiris. The Isis temple is of Ptolemaic date (304 –30 ), spe

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The caption on this 1903 image reads: “Colored reliefs carved in Great temple at Philae.” It appeared in the book History of Egypt by French Egyptologist Gaston Maspero. The island of Philae was located in the Nile River at the First Cataract, south of the present Aswan dam; it is now totally submerged, following the construction of the Aswan dam. This temple, thought to be the single most beautiful preserved ancient Egyptian temple, housed a mammisi, or birth house, built to celebrate the birth of Harpocrates to Isis and Osiris. The Isis temple is of Ptolemaic date (304 –30 ), specifically about 280

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