Ajuala

Ajuala Gate on Elephantine Island in Aswan .

Ajuala was a place in what is now Egypt in Lower Nubia and is the modern name for the ancient paptoulis . The place was about seven kilometers south of Kalabsha and is now sunk in Lake Nasser . In Ajuala there was a temple of the god Mandulis from Ptolemaic- Roman times. The gods Horus , Isis and Osiris were also worshiped. The temple was found a stele fragment of Ptolemy VI. Philometor .

literature

Eberhard Otto : Ajuala. In: Wolfgang Helck (Hrsg.): Lexikon der Ägyptologie (LÄ). Volume I, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1975, ISBN 3-447-01670-1 , Sp. 112.

24.083778 32.885194Coordinates: 24 ° 5 ′ 1.6 ″ N , 32 ° 53 ′ 6.7 ″ E