The Southern exterior wall relief show Cleopatra VII and son Caesarian, son of Julius Caesar, making offerings to Hathor

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The Temple of Dendera was built by the Ptolemy’s and later elements were added by the Romans. The complex included two birth houses, a sacred lake, two chapels dedicated to Osiris and a chapel dedicated to Isis. The complex was surrounded by high mud brick walls that were built in alternating concave and convex sections. This produced a wavy structure that is assumed to signify the primordial sea which surrounds the symbolic mound of birth and regeneration on which the temple was built.

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Size: 5200px × 3387px
Location: Dendera complex,Dendera Egypt
Photo credit: © SCFotos - Stuart Crump Photography / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: caesarian, cleopatra, dendera, ptolemaic, temple