Temple of Debod
Posted on 03/30/2007 10:02:54 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
When King Adikhalamani started erecting a sanctuary for the divinities Amon and Isis more than two millennia ago, he could scarcely have imagined that the building would one day leave the hot and dry climate of southern Egypt. Today, however, the temple where Egyptian priests once attended to a statuette of the high god Amon stands in a faraway city, where the cold bites, and winds blow for part of the year. Since it was brought to the Spanish capital Madrid in the early 1970s, one of the most important Egyptian temples of the Western world is said to have deteriorated more than during the previous two millennia in Egypt. Concerned about its state, experts are proposing solutions, including covering it with a glass dome... Egypt donated the temple to thank Spain for helping to rescue it and other monuments from the rising waters of the Nile during the construction of the Aswan High Dam. Italy, the Netherlands and the United States also participated in the rescue operation and were given monuments, which Spanish experts describe as smaller and of less interest for historians than the temple of Debod... The temple of Debod has been named after the Nubian town of Debod, where Meroitic King Adikhalamani built a sanctuary in the second century BC.
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nice!
Thanks! It's nicely displayed. Still, the Egyptians were stingy considering the effort expended and the World Heritage Site which wound up preserved.
Where can I get one of those statuesque Nubians?
:')
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