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Roman, Greek and ClassicalSite Name: Medinet Maadi temple of Renenutet Alternative Name: Medinet Maadi temple
Country: Egypt
NOTE: This site is 11.543 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Lower Egypt (North) Type: Ancient Temple
Nearest Town: Fayum  Nearest Village: Ezbet Khamîs el-Shâl
Latitude: 29.193481N  Longitude: 30.642050E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
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3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Ancient Temple in Lower Egypt (North)

The temple at Medinet Madi was dedicated to Sobek, the goddess Renenutet and Horus. The Temple of the cobra-goddess Renenutet (a harvest deity) was founded during the middle Kingdom in the reigns of 12th Dynasty Pharaohs Amenemhat III and IV (1855-1799 BCE). It was later expanded and embellished during the Greco-Roman period.

The dark sandstone inner part of the temple consists of a small papyrus-columned hall leading to a sanctuary comprising 3 chapels, each containing statues of deities. The central chapel incorporated a large statue of Renenutet, with pharaohs Amenemhat III and IV standing on either side. The Ptolemaic parts of the temple comprise a paved processional way passing through an 8-columned kiosk leading to a portico and transverse vestibule. The unusually good preservation of this temple, first excavated by a team of archaeologists from the University of Milan in the 1930s, may have been due simply to its relative seclusion realtively far from the inhabited oasis.


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