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Roman, Greek and ClassicalSite Name: Temple of Gerf Hussein Alternative Name: Temple of Ptah, Temple of HathorCountry: Egypt Region: Nubia Type: Ancient Temple
Nearest Town: Aswan Nearest Village: High Dam
Latitude: 23.960170N Longitude: 32.867650E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
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 |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
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 |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Temple in Nubia
Built by Setau, Viceroy of Kush (Nubia) in honour of Ramses II and dedicated to the gods Ptah and Hathor. Originaly located 170 Km south in a location now under water since the building of the Aswan dam. Only the ramses colossi and the colonade were saved as the rock was of extremely poor quality and could not be removed without crumbling into dust. The site was in very delapidate condition even before the flooding of the nile. It was only recently reassembled due to the complexity of the conservation operation. The site has one of the two saved colossi which is substancially shorter than it's twin in the Nubian museum in Aswan, which was better preserved. I suspect the authorities used the best remaining components from 4 colossi to assemble two passable survivors.
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