Bas relief sculptured Zodiac from an Osirian chapel
The Dendera zodiac as displayed at the LouvreDenderah zodiac with original colors (reconstructed)
The sculptured Dendera zodiac (or Denderah zodiac) is a widely known Egyptian bas-relief from the ceiling of the pronaos (or portico) of a chapel dedicated to Osiris in the Hathor temple at Dendera, containing images of Taurus (the bull) and Libra (the scales). This chapel was begun in the late Ptolemaic period; its pronaos was added by the emperor Tiberius. This led Jean-François Champollion to date the relief to the Greco-Roman period, but most of his contemporaries believed it to be of the New Kingdom.
The relief, which John H. Rogers characterised as "the only complete map that we have of an ancient sky",[1] has been conjectured in the past to represent the basis on which later astronomy systems were based.[2] It is now on display at the Musée du Louvre, Paris.
^John H. Rogers, "Origins of the ancient constellations: I. The Mesopotamian traditions", Journal of the British Astronomical Association108 (1998) 9–28
^Zodiac of Dendera, epitome. (Exhibition, Leic. square). J. Haddon, 1825.
The sculptured Denderazodiac (or Denderah zodiac) is a widely known Egyptian bas-relief from the ceiling of the pronaos (or portico) of a chapel dedicated...
sculptured Denderazodiac (or Denderah zodiac) is a widely known relief found in a late Greco-Roman temple, containing images of the zodiac system still...
Pepi I Meryre who built the temple. It was once home to the celebrated Denderazodiac, which is now displayed in the Louvre Museum in Paris. There are also...
Both the famous zodiacs of Dendera display their symbols, identified by Karl Richard Lepsius. The division of the ecliptic into the zodiacal signs originates...
Mesopotamian influence on the zodiac, which included two signs – the Balance and the Scorpion, as evidenced in the DenderaZodiac (in the Greek version the...
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and thence to a zodiac of 12 signs, based on an anthropomorphic pattern of constellations, and their use can be seen in the Denderazodiac dated to circa...
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square of Pegasus was the constellation of the "field", shown in the Denderazodiac between the two fishes. The northern fish and part of Andromeda represented...
now part of collections of the British Museum. On the other hand, the Denderazodiac is, like the Rosetta Stone, claimed by Egypt even though it was acquired...
include: the Rosetta Stone, the bust of Nefertiti, the Denderazodiac ceiling painting from the Dendera Temple, the bust of Ankhhaf (the architect of the Khafre...
influence on the Egyptian zodiac, which shared two signs – the Balance and the Scorpion, as evidenced in the DenderaZodiac (in the Greek version the...
sky is the Ptolemaic Egyptian Denderazodiac, dating from 50 BC. This is a bas relief sculpting on a ceiling at the Dendera Temple complex. It is a planisphere...
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stela Bronze Sphinx of Thutmose III Cosmetic Spoon: Young Girl Swimming Denderazodiac Great Sphinx of Tanis Khonsuemheb and the Ghost Raherka and Meresankh...
stela Bronze Sphinx of Thutmose III Cosmetic Spoon: Young Girl Swimming Denderazodiac Great Sphinx of Tanis Khonsuemheb and the Ghost Raherka and Meresankh...
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stela Bronze Sphinx of Thutmose III Cosmetic Spoon: Young Girl Swimming Denderazodiac Great Sphinx of Tanis Khonsuemheb and the Ghost Raherka and Meresankh...
stela Bronze Sphinx of Thutmose III Cosmetic Spoon: Young Girl Swimming Denderazodiac Great Sphinx of Tanis Khonsuemheb and the Ghost Raherka and Meresankh...
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break the stones coming from on high'. J. Dümichen, Baugeschichte des Dendera-Tempels, Strassburg, 1877") Stern, Bolko (1998) [1896]. Ägyptische Kulturgeschichte...
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stela Bronze Sphinx of Thutmose III Cosmetic Spoon: Young Girl Swimming Denderazodiac Great Sphinx of Tanis Khonsuemheb and the Ghost Raherka and Meresankh...
stela Bronze Sphinx of Thutmose III Cosmetic Spoon: Young Girl Swimming Denderazodiac Great Sphinx of Tanis Khonsuemheb and the Ghost Raherka and Meresankh...
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