Pictures of 04.25.00 -- The Temple at Kom

This was a quite remarkable temple. We docked the ship and could see the temple from the side of the boat. We had the usual walk there past the phone booth ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250062 past the cobra trainer ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250016 and through the bazaar ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250017 until we reached the entrance ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250018 and saw the temple ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250022 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250030
Our first stop was at the crocodile mummies ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250019 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250020 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250021 Once we got to the temple, we were impressed at how well it had been preserved by being buried under water for so long. Once inside the temple, there were the usual collection of columns, ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250024 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250026 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250027 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250028 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250029 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250031 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250058 ceiling, ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250042 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250047 hieroglyphics, ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250023 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250036 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250037 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250041 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250046 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250051 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250052 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250053 and engravings ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250025 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250032 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250033 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250034 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250035 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250038 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250039 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250040 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250044 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250045 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250048 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250054 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250055 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250056 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250059 This temple was particularly interesting because it was built in the Greek/Roman period and many of the images above tell stories relating to Cleopatra VII, the daughter of Ptolemey III. She is the Cleopatra of history. Our guide did a wonderful job of relating the engravings to the cartouches that tell the stories. We also saw engravings here, as in other places, documenting the merger of upper and lower Egypts and the gods who were involved in the merger and in protecting it.
Our guide also showed us 2 other things of note. This ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250050 is an indentation used to join stones. When temples have been dismantled in order to be moved, they have found pieces of wood and bronze in these indentations. And, this ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250049 was the chamber of holies where the priests went to imitate the gods when greeting the king.
Our last stop at the site was at an old Roman statue ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250049 that had been built at the site in a later period. On the way back we took a few pictures from different angles of the temple at sunset ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250057 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250061 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250063
We were a few minutes late getting back to the ship ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250064 so our neighbors pulled up their plank and sailed away leaving a small gap ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250065 to be bridged. Eventually the Helios got its bridge up ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250066 and we could proceed ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.25.00Kom_OmboTemple//P4250067 Unfortunately the whole operation took about half an hour and so we got to Aswan that much later.