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Esna
is approx. 60 km south of Luksor. One can go to the temple there in the context of a Nile cruise mostly.
The boat investor is remarkable, it dates from the time of the Roman emperor Marc Aurel, it carries the cartridges certainly today.
The temple of Esna was dedicated to the ram-headed God Chnum as well as some other divinities. The temple was in connection with four others, temples no more got today in the surroundings.
So at the temple of Esna it is so to speak the special in a pit that it lies 9 metres under today's city of Esna. During the last century the temple still was used as a cotton store.
A columned hall which formed the beginning of the temple inside once is only got by the former temple today. It is regarded as the most beautiful of all temples of the Greek Roman epoch in Egypt. The temple of Ptolemy IV. was built, however, reliefs of later Ptolemaic Pharaos and Roman emperors are also found. The quality of these reliefs is rather regarded as unsatisfactory in comparison with earlier epochs, though.
Hieroglyphs in which the celebrations of the sacred year are described in Esna write be on the columns. This sacred year is held tight also in form of a calendar.
Hymns even encoded are on the temple walls. The hieroglyphs were replaced by ram or crocodile sign in them.
Esna Latopolis was mentioned by the Greek since the inhabitants admired the old fish. The fish were buried on a nearby cemetery.
Edfu
is approx. 100 km south of Luksor. If the place is not included in the context of a Nile cruise, one can book a day trip from Luksor or Assuan.
One gets from the laying out quay at the Nile to the Horus temple at the Pferdedroschke best in one.
The temple is the best in Egypt. Just in the reconsidered inner area one can all Egyptian temples make a good impression of the effect to himself, once good this one must have. Some rooms are completely located in it half-darkly or get light only by little openings.
The soot traces of the generations still can be seen by cattle guardians who have lit their campfires here in later times at the ceiling panels.
237 became available temples this one v. Chr. founded today. The building measures were continued by the Ptolemies for over two centuries.
Construction and foundation of the temple are described in inscriptions on the temple wall. The initial pylon of the Horus temple is the second biggest pylon of the Karnak temple after the first one. The usual representations of the Pharaoh, the enemies are found it kills here.
A corridor which leads to the temple roof is located in the transition of the Tempelhof into the inside on the right side. From time to time, a helpful guardian finds himself it is ready against a small baksheesh for it to allow the access.
The stone shrine in which the God picture was is in the inner sanctum of the temple still. Since there were these cult statues made of noble metal or wood with liabilities they are robbed from all temples of Egypt were. One discovers a room nearby in which the sacred sun skiff was kept once. A reconstruction which is based on reliefs in the temple stands there today.
Dealing which draws itself around the temple inside is interesting. Well-preserved representations point under other Horus which fights against hippopotami as personifications of the "bad" God Seth. The faces of the gods and Pharaonen were gouged presumably during the Christian time.
Kom Ombo
is approx. 40 km north of Assuan. If the place is not included in the context of a Nil cruise, one can go to the temple there from Luksor or Assuan.
The temple of Kom Ombo lies on an elevation directly at the River Nile. Of the temple one has a beautiful view of the Nil and the surrounding fields.
Built the plant was in the Ptolemaic time of Egypt, the crocodile God Sobek and the falcon-headed Haroeris as well as some other divinities were admired parallel here.
Crocodile mummies are in a little Hathor shrine exhibited at the entrance of the temple of a nearby animal cemetery.
The special is the plant as a double temple at the Kom Ombo temple. It is divided up into two symmetrical halves: The left side for Haroeris which raked for Sobek. The reliefs inside are got well and executed in the typical "round" Ptolemaic style.
Traces of the decline let themselves be seen, however, the artists have not always adhered to the typical Egyptian canon so.
A deep fountain is still interesting on the temple area. Here these hallow crocodiles contrary to the assertions of the guides that was held, it simply served well the water catchment.
