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Roman, Greek and ClassicalSite Name: Medinet Maadi temple of Renenutet Alternative Name: Medinet Maadi templeCountry: 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:
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4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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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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