The Temple of Kom-Ombo

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Kom Ombo, Egypt,
Description
Located in the town of Kom Ombo, about 28 miles north of Aswan, the temple, which dates to the reign of the Ptolemies, based on the sand dunes overlooking the River Nile and the current church is the sixth by Ptolemy in the second century BC. Ptolemy XIII built the corridors of the columns in the home and abroad. The outer wall, and part of a court built by Augustus sometime after 30 BC, most of them gold. There are also tombs of the ancient near the village of Kom Ombo.
The Temple of Kom Ombo, as is already known two temples which consists of the structure and the Temple of Sobek Haroeris. In ancient times, sacred crocodiles, and enjoy the sun on the river bank near here. Temple has been very low, primarily because of changes to the River Nile, then the Copts, once used it as a church, and finally the builders who used the stones of new buildings.
Everything is repeated along the main axis. There are two entrances, two tennis, two rooms colonades columns and the holy of holies. Perhaps there was not even two sets of priests. The left, or north side is dedicated to Haroeris (sometimes called Harer, Horus the Great) who was a hawk-headed god of heaven, and the right to Sobek (f corcodile headed god). The gods are accompanied by their families. These include Haroeris wife 'Tesentnefert name, that Rashid's sister and her son, Panebtawy. Sobeck is also accompanied by his wife, Hathor and son Khonsu.
Foundations is that all of the remainder of the original tower. Far from the tower, there once was a staircase in the court leading to the roof-terrace. The court porch columns and the central altar. There's a scene to leave his palace accompanied by the king rules. Near the tomb of the stage of cleansing. On both sides of the door pronaos columns that contain the patterns of symbols from the south of the Lotus () and papyrus (north), symbolizing the 'two lands in Egypt.
In the southwest corner of the pronaos is the column that does not echo the duality of the temples. Here scenes from the purification of the king, and to devote his coronation to the temple. The roof had astronomical images.
Hall of papyrus columns and capitals on the columns. Here stripped of scared places of Egypt, the gods of the major cities and local and national festivals.
In the camera, and there are scenes depicting gods Seshat start building the temple, the temple scene followed ended with the king throwing natron in the purification ceremony. Stairs leading to the surface is all that remains of the offering of the village.
And statues of the gods, and the builders of the Temple, once ranked fourth in the net before the holy sites. Ceiling where the North are still fresh with the image of a hazelnut. Very little of Holies.