Deir el-Schelwit
Deir el-Schelwit (also Deir esch-Schelwit ) is a temple in Egypt , which is north of Thebes on the west side of the Nile . It is located about 3.5 kilometers southwest of the temple of Medinet Habu .
description
Of the originally 50 meters wide and 80 meters long complex, which was surrounded by an adobe wall, only the gate and the small sanctuary still exist today. The unfinished sanctuary of around 18.50 meters by 14 meters has a sanctuary and several ancillary rooms. It dates from the Greco-Roman period (2nd half of the 1st century AD) and was dedicated to the goddess Isis and the god Month . At the time of Galba , Otho , Hadrian and Antoninus Pius the temple was being built.
The temple
Reliefs on a pylon
Detail of the southern wall
literature
- Hans Bonnet: Dêr esch-Schelwit. In: Lexicon of Egyptian Religious History. Nikol, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-937872-08-6 , p. 157.
- Dieter Arnold , The Temples of Egypt. Bechtermünz, Augsburg 1996, ISBN 3-86047-215-1 , p. 153.
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Coordinates: 25 ° 41 ′ 43 " N , 32 ° 34 ′ 42" E