Dendera Temple complex
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Dendera Temple complex (located around Dendera) consist of the Temple of Isis, Scared Lake, Sanatorium, Mammisi of Nectanebo II, Christian or Coptic Basilica, Roman Mammisi, Bark shine, Gate of Demitian & Trajan, another Gate and the Roman Kiosk – but the all overshadowing building in the Complex is the main temple, namely Hathor temple, one of the best, if not the best, preserved temple in all Egypt. The whole complex covers some 40.000 square meters and is surrounded by a hefty mud brick enclosed wall.
Dendera was a site for chapels or shrines from the beginning of history of ancient Egypt. It seems that pharaoh Pepi I (ca. 2250 BC) built on this site and evidence exists of a temple in the eighteenth dynasty (ca 1500 BC). But the earliest extant building in the compound today is the Mammisi raised by Nectanebo II – last of the native pharaohs (360-343 BC)
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