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| Brian McMorrow | profile | all galleries >> Middle East, North Africa & the Caucasus >> Egypt مصر >> Nile Cruise Luxor-Aswan >> Edfu | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
 Disembarking at Edfu |
 The Abercrombie & Kent Nile Explorer |
 Remains of the mud brick walls surrounding the Temple of Edfu, |
 Sphinx outside the Temple of Edfu |
 Temple of Horus at Edfu, built by Ptolemy III starting in 237 BC |
 Old buildings from the village of Edfu near the temple |
 Temple of Horus, Edfu, is the 2nd largest in Egypt after Karnak |
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 First Pylon of the Temple of Horus at Edfu |
 Detail of the west tower of the First Pylon |
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 First Pylon, 36m high |
 First Pylon of Ptolemy XII, completed in 57 BC |
 Horus wearing the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt |
 Ptolemy XII, father of Cleopatra |
 First Pylon |
 Horus |
 First Pylon |
 Ptolemy XII |
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 The gods Maat, Osiris, Mut, Thoth and Anedjti |
 Ptolemy XII facing Horus the Elder, Hathor, Montu (god of war), Harsomtus (Horus the Younger), and Sekhmet |
 Protection symbols in the doorway over the entrance in the First Pylon, Edfu |
 Granite statue of Horus in falcon form |
 Hathor wearing a composite crown |
 Horus |
 Granite Horus |
 Granite Horus in falcon form |
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 Granite Horus |
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 The goddess Hathor, Edfu |
 Granite Horus |
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 Great Court and the facade of the pronaos (hypostyle hall), Temple of Horus at Edfu |
 Horus in falcon form, Great Court |
 Outer Hypostyle Hall from the Great Court, Edfu |
 Blank cartouche waiting for a Pharoah |
 The facade of the pronaos with Graeco-Roman screen walls |
 Horus of Edfu |
 Black granite Horus |
 Horus |
 Colonnade, Great Court, Edfu |
 Horus |
 Outer hypostyle hall, Edfu |
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 Outer Hypostyle Hall, Edfu |
 Looking from the Outer Hypostyle Hall through the Inner Hypostyle Hall to the Offering Chamber and Sanctuary of Horus |
 Main axis of Temple of Horus |
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 Pharoah with Seshet, Thoth's consort, goddess of writing and measurement, and Horus |
 Horus embracing Pharoah |
 Scorched ceiling of Outer Hypostyle Hall from medieval fires |
 Nut, the sky goddess |
 Recipies for perfumes and aromatic oils used in temple rituals in the temple laboratory |
 Temple laboratory, Edfu |
 Scorched ceiling of the Inner Hypostyle Hall |
 Horus on one of the massive columns of the Inner Hypostyle Hall |
 Inner Hypostyle Hall, Edfu |
 High priest cloaked in a leopard skin, Offering Chamber |
 Hathor and Horus |
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 Stairway on the west side of the Offering Chamber |
 Relief of Min, west side of Offering Chamber |
 Min, god of fertility |
 Passage around the Sanctuary of Horus |
 Reproduction of a processional barque, Temple of Horus, Edfu |
 Sanctuary of Horus, the Holy of Holies |
 Monolithic naos of polished syenite, Nectanebo II (30th Dyn) |
 Sanctuary of Horus, the Holy of Holies |
 The Passage of Victory around the outside of the temple depicts the battle between Horus and Seth |
 Passage of Victory, Edfu |
 One of the few undefiled reliefs in the Passage of Victory around the outside of the Temple of Horus |
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 Pharoah harpooning Seth, who is depicted as a small hippo |
 Left, Isis and Horus, right Horus and Ra |
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 Hapy, the Nile god |
 A small antelope |
 A pair of ankhs |
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 Horus |
 Horus |
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 Horus |
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 Isis and Osiris |
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 Baboons greetings the sunrise, Edfu |
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 Hathor and Pharoah |
 Priests carrying a small shrine |
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 Horus |
 Blank cartouche - rapid turnover in Pharoahs |
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 Edfu |
 Edfu First Pylon |
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 Sphinx near the temple at Edfu |
 City of Edfu |
 Modern Edfu |
 Back to the boat |
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