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Dendera
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Entrance to Dendara Temple, Dendara Temple Complex, Inside Hathor Temple, Hathor Temple Complex
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CountryFile:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt
GovernorateQena
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Dendera (Template:Langx Dandarah; Template:Langx; Bohairic Template:Langx; Sahidic Template:Langx),[1][2] also spelled Denderah, ancient Iunet 𓉺𓈖𓏏𓊖 “jwn.t”,[3] Tentyris[4][5],(Arabic: Ewan-t إيوان-ة ),[6] or Tentyra[7] is a small town and former bishopric in Egypt situated on the west bank of the Nile, about 5 kilometres (3 mi) south of Qena, on the opposite side of the river. It is located approximately 60 kilometres (37 mi) north of Luxor and remains a Latin Catholic titular see. It contains the Dendera Temple complex, one of the best-preserved temple sites from ancient Upper Egypt.

In Ancient Egypt, Iunet (Dendera) was the capital of the Sixth Nome of Upper Egypt (Iqer). Sometimes its governor was the head of all of Upper Egypt, like Idu I who served in the late 6th dynasty.

Etymology

<hiero>iwn-n:t-niwt</hiero>
jwnt[8]
in hieroglyphs
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<hiero>tA:n-tA:r:r-t:niwt</hiero> or <hiero>xpr:N21-n:tA:Z1*N23-r:r:t*niwt</hiero>
t3 n t3 rr(t)[1][9]
in hieroglyphs
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Entrance to the temple.

The original name of the town is Template:Langx, the etymology of which is unknown. It was later complemented by the name of the chief goddess Hathor and became Egyptian Template:Langx which is the source of Template:Langx or just Script error: No such module "Lang". "of the goddess", which is the source of Template:Langx. The modern Arabic name of the town comes from either its Greek or Coptic name.[10]

There is also an aberrant Coptic form Script error: No such module "Lang"., which could be either dissimilation of a regular name or a confusion with Koine Script error: No such module "Lang"..[11][12]

Temple complex

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Egypt – Denderah

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". The Dendera Temple complex, which contains the Temple of Hathor, is one of the best-preserved temples, if not the best-preserved one, in all of Upper Egypt. The whole complex covers some 40,000 square meters and is surrounded by a hefty mud brick wall. The present Temple of Hathor dates back to July 54 BC, at the time of Ptolemy XII of the Ptolemaic dynasty,[13] and was completed by the Roman emperor Tiberius, but it rests on the foundations of earlier buildings dating back at least as far as Khufu (known as the Great Pyramid builder Cheops, the second Pharaoh of the 4th dynasty [c. 2613–c. 2494 BC]) but it was the pharaoh Pepi I Meryre who built the temple.[13][14]

It was once home to the celebrated Dendera zodiac, which is now displayed in the Louvre Museum in Paris. There are also Roman and pharaonic Mammisi (birth houses), ruins of a Coptic church and a small chapel dedicated to Isis, dating to the Roman or the Ptolemaic epoch.

In the vicinity of the temple complex a bakery dated to the First Intermediate Period was discovered by the French-Polish expedition from the Institut français d’archéologie orientale (IFAO) and the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw. Bread offered to Hathor was baked here.[15] The team also excavated the so-called Eastern Temple in this area.[16]

The area around the temple has been extensively landscaped and now has a modern visitor centre, bazaar and small cafeteria.

Ecclesiastical history

After Egypt became a Roman possession, the city of Tentyris was part of the Late Roman province of Thebais Secunda. Its bishopric was a suffragan of Ptolemais Hermiou, the capital and metropolitan see of the province. Little is known of the history of Christianity in the place, as only the names of two ancient bishops are given:

The town was given its present Arabic name of Denderah during the late Ottoman Empire and ruled 6000 inhabitants in Qena (Qeneh) district.

Titular see

Under the Latin name Tentyris, the episcopal see was nominally revived as a titular bishopric (in Curiate Italian repeatedly renamed) since 1902, but is vacant since 1972,[17] having had the following incumbents of the fitting episcopal (lowest) rank :

Climate

This area has a large amount of sunshine year round due to its stable descending air and high pressure. According to the Köppen climate classification system, Dendera has a hot desert climate, abbreviated "BWh" on climate maps.[18]

Sponsors

Monuments

References – Notes

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  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Linguistic Bibliography". blonline.nl.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Félix Teynard - Dendérah (Tentyris), Temple d'Athôr - Face Postérieure - Cléopatre et Cæsarion - The Metropolitan Museum of Art". metmuseum.org.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hawas, Zahi (2002). مخطوط معجم اللغة المصرية القديمة احمد كمال كمال. الجزء االثاني عشر (in Arabic). Cairo: Al-maǧlis al-aʿlá li-l-aṯār, high council of antiquities. p. 496. ISBN 9773053474.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  7. ^ In old sources such as Belzoni.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Gauthier, Henri (1925). Dictionnaire des Noms Géographiques Contenus dans les Textes Hiéroglyphiques Vol. 1. p. 56.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Wallis Budge, E. A. (1920). An Egyptian hieroglyphic dictionary: with an index of English words, king list and geological list with indexes, list of hieroglyphic characters, coptic and semitic alphabets, etc. Vol II. John Murray. p. 1051.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Gardiner, Alan H. (1947). Ancient Egyptian Onomastica 2. Oxford University Press. p. 30.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Peust, Carsten (2010). Die Toponyme vorarabischen Ursprungs im modernen Ägypte. Göttingen. p. 33.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Černý, Jaroslav (1976). Coptic Etymological Dictionary. Cambridge University Press. p. 347.
  13. ^ a b c d Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bard, Kathryn A., ed. (2005). Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt. Routledge. p. 252. ISBN 978-1-134-66525-9.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Beaumont, Hervé (2001-02-02). Egypte: le guide des civilisations égyptiennes, des pharaons à l'islam (in français). Editions Marcus. ISBN 9782713101687.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Dendera". pcma.uw.edu.pl. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Łukaszewicz, Adam (2003). "Dendera: Interim communiqué" (PDF). Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean. 14.
  17. ^ Tentyris at catholic-hierarchy.org.
  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Dandara, Egypt Köpen Climate Classification (Weatherbase)". Weatherbase.
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  21. ^ "Trajan was, in fact, quite active in Egypt. Separate scenes of Domitian and Trajan making offerings to the gods appear on reliefs on the propylon of the Temple of Hathor at Dendera. There are cartouches of Domitian and Trajan on the column shafts of the Temple of Knum at Esna, and on the exterior a frieze text mentions Domitian, Trajan, and Hadrian" Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Stadter, Philip A.; Stockt, L. Van der (2002). Sage and Emperor: Plutarch, Greek Intellectuals, and Roman Power in the Time of Trajan (98-117 A.D.). Leuven University Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-90-5867-239-1.

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