Temple of Dendur

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The Temple of Dendur is an ancient Egyptian sandstone temple, built by the Roman emperor Augustus around 15 BCE and now prominently displayed in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Dendur 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Egyptian temple
archaeological monument
sandstone temple
architecturalStyle Egyptian
builderTitle Roman emperor
builtBy Augustus
constructionMaterial sandstone
countryOfOrigin Egypt
culturalOrigin Egypt
surface form: Ancient Egypt
dedicatedTo Horus of Kubban
Isis
Osiris
donatedBy Egypt
surface form: Arab Republic of Egypt
donatedTo United States of America
donationYear 1965
era Ptolemaic–Roman Egypt
exhibitedIn Metropolitan Museum of Art
surface form: Sackler Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
featuresDepictionOf Augustus making offerings to Egyptian deities
hasPart courtyard
hieroglyphic inscriptions
pronaos
pylon
relief carvings
sanctuary
hasReliefStyle sunken relief
hasViewOf Central Park
inception circa 15 BCE
inscriptionLanguage Egyptian hieroglyphs
Meroitic
installationCompleted 1978
installedAt Metropolitan Museum of Art
locatedIn Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City
New York
surface form: New York State

United States of America
surface form: United States
originalLocation Temple of Dendur self-linksurface differs
surface form: Dendur

Lower Nubia
southern Egypt
ownedBy Metropolitan Museum of Art
period Roman period in Egypt
reasonForRelocation threat of flooding from Aswan High Dam reservoir
significantFor example of Roman patronage of Egyptian cults
major Egyptian monument displayed outside Egypt
subjectOf art historical research
museum exhibitions
surroundedBy reflecting pool
transportedBy United States government
UNESCOCampaignContext International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia

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Temple of Dendur originalLocation Temple of Dendur self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Dendur