ad-Dakka

The Thoth Temple at Dakka

Ad-Dakka ( Arabic الدكة, DMG ad-Dakka , also el-Dakka , Egyptian: Pselqet , Greek: Pselchis ) was a place in Lower Nubia , about 100 km south of Aswan .

Here stood a Thoth temple, which was built by the Meroitic king Arqamani , who first built a small chapel here. The chapel was enlarged by the Egyptian kings Ptolemy IV and Ptolemy VIII , as well as by the Roman emperors Augustus and Tiberius and turned into a real temple. The temple had two sanctuaries , one by Arqamani and another behind it and built by Augustus.

During the construction of the Aswan Dam , the temple was dismantled and moved to Es-Sebua . The temple stands on the 1979 World Heritage List of UNESCO .

The titular bishopric "Pselchis" of the Roman Catholic Church is named after the place.

See also

• List of titular Roman Catholic dioceses # P

literature

• Dieter Arnold : Temples of the last Pharaohs. Oxford University Press, New York NY et al. 1999, ISBN 0-19-512633-5 , p. 179, figure 128.

Web links

• Craig Hildreth: The Temple of Dakka in Nubia . - The temple of ad-Dakka (English) On: touregypt.net ; last accessed on May 31, 2017.

Individual evidence

1. ^ UNESCO World Heritage Center (WHC): Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae . On: whc.unesco.org ; last accessed on May 31, 2017.

Coordinates: 22 ° 48 ′ 5 ″  N , 32 ° 32 ′ 44 ″  E