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The Temple of Kalabsha in Egypt
The temple of Kalabsha, also known as Old Mandules Temple, was originally located at the Bab al-Kalashheh, about 40 km south of Aswan. This temple was located on the west bank of the Nile River. The current location of the Kalabsha temple on the banks of Lake Nasser is not the original site of the temple. New on the banks of Lake Nasser, which was called the “New Kalabsha area,” the transfer also included some of the effects of the Nuba, which was threatened by drowning …
According to the Roman rule of Egypt, the temple of Kalabsha was built about 30 years before the birth of Jesus, a temple of the worship of the idol “Mandolis”, god of fertility and sun in the Nubians their belief. The name Mandules linked to the Egyptian idol “Horus” was portrayed in the mirror body of a man wearing a crown with a horn Ram, two blades, a sun disk and cobra life ……
The temple of Kalabsha was built on the ruins of another temple of King Amenhotep the Second, as some believe that it was built on ancient buildings dating back to the reign of Ptolemy IX. The temple was started by the Roman Emperor Octavius ​​August but was not completed. One of the largest temples of the Egyptian-Nubian style, the temple’s design is the most common in that period. The dimensions of the temple are 76 meters long and 22 meters wide. Although the temple was built in the Roman era, it contains drawings of the god Horus on the inner wall of the temple…
The temple contains an open courtyard and courtyard, a collonaded hall, three sanctuary rooms, a temple leading to the roof that overlooks the open view of the temple, a lake and a sanctuary. There are many historical records on the walls of the temple, including the orders of the Roman leader Aurelius Pesarion, The governor of Ambos and Aswan about 249 AD, which prevents the entry of pigs to the temple for religious purposes, and the back part of the corridor of the temple scenes are depicting a Ptolemaic king offers offerings to Isis and Mndolis. There is a view of King Amenhotep, who founded the original temple depicting him offering offerings of wine Li Min idol and Mndolees, as well as the writings of the king of the Nubian “Selco” and where his victories recorded on Plumas and represent himself as a soldier on the back of a Roman horse. Silko was the king of the Nubian Christian kingdom “Nobatia.”