Ancient Egyptian temple on display in New York City
Temple of Dendur
Completion date
10 BCE
Medium
Aeolian sandstone
Subject
Egyptian religion and mythology
Dimensions
4.9 m × 6.4 m × 13 m (16 ft × 21 ft × 43 ft)
Location
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, U.S.
Accession
68.154
The Temple of Dendur (Dendoor in the 19th century) is a Roman Egyptian religious structure originally located in Tuzis (later Dendur), Nubia about 80 kilometres (50 mi) south of modern Aswan.[1][2] Around 23 BCE, Emperor Augustus commissioned the temple dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis and deified brothers Pedesi and Pihor from Nubia.[3][4]
In 1963, as part of the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia, UNESCO helped rescue and relocate the temple from flooding caused by the Aswan High Dam.[5] Egypt gave the temple to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, which has exhibited it since 1978.[2]
Temple complex drawing, 1817Photograph of the temple, 1867
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^Aldred, Cyril (1978). "The Temple of Dendur". The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. 36 (1): 6, 15, 30, 46, 48, 50, 57, 61. doi:10.2307/3269059. JSTOR 3269059 – via JSTOR.
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