Kalabsha Temple
Kalabsha temple was built in Kalabsha (Talmis) moved to its current location in Kalabsha (Chola) in 1970, along with other monuments in Nubia, and Qertassi booth (Kertassi). The house is close to the governor. You can go by taxi or boat, depending on water level, the sandstone building built by the Roman emperor Octavian Augustus (30 to 14 BC) and dedicated to the fertility and Nubian Solar deity known as Mandulis (Merwel was the Nubian counterpart of Horus).
It is the oldest free-standing temple of Egyptian Nubia and classic design is the Temple Kalabsha to the Ptolemaic period, and towers, and a courtyard, and a hall of columns and three rooms of the shrine. However, the tower make up, creating a trapezoid in the courtyard beyond. It is built on the site earlier and having a structure which was built by Ptolemy IX as shown by the Church. There is a small church and the door on the island of Elephantine Kalabsha, and the gate built by Augustus Ägyptisches donated to the museum in West Berlin.
The inner courtyard of the tower columns may only once on three sides. At each end and a staircase leading to the upper floors of the tower and a good view of Lake Nasser. Controls the right of the separation wall in the courtyard of the hall of columns, is a pattern Aurelius Bessarion (about 249 AD), Governor of Philly Ombos and decrees the expulsion of pigs in the city for religious reasons. In a column here is the text of Kharamadoye and King is one of the longest inscriptions irrigated found so far. On one wall, believed to be a pattern for the 5th-century king of Nubia, Selco, who conquered the fierce Blemmyes Nubia. Seances other that appear on the screen on the wall is the king with Horus, and Thoth. In the back of the hall scenes from the Ptolemaic king making offerings to Isis and Mandulis. Moreover, Amenhotep II, who founded the original church (1450 to 1425 BC) in support of this, is to make the offer of wine and Mandulis limit.
After the lobby of three cameras, and pronaos (the front room in the shrine, the naos, or shrine, where statues of the gods are in and adyton, which is the innermost sanctuary or chapter). Seances several within these rooms are surrounded by the king of the gods of Upper and Lower Egypt, Amun-Min, Ptah, while receiving the holy water of Thoth, and Horus. In the sarcophagus and adyton, is the king making offerings to Osiris, Isis, and Mandulis.
There is also a small church can be accessed from the drawer in the room first and then come down from the ceiling in each of the chapel inside the wall. After he left the temple, and make sure to take note of the back wall with pictures Mandulis with an eagle feather cloak.