Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Dendara Complex; Roman Mammisi
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Preferred Title:
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Dendara Complex; Roman Mammisi
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Alternate Title:
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Dendera Complex; Roman Birth House
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Image View:
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The south colonnade, showing reliefs on the inter-columnar wall
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Creator:
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unknown (Egyptian (ancient))
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Location:
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site: Dendara Temple Complex (Qina, Upper Egypt, Egypt)
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Date:
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ca. 117 CE (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Egyptian (ancient)
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Style Period:
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Greco-Roman; Ptolemaic
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Work Type 1:
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excavation (site)
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Work Type 2:
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chapel (room or structure)
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Classification:
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architecture
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Material:
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stone; limestone; painted raised relief
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Technique:
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carving (processes); construction (assembling)
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Subjects:
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architectural exteriors; deities; rulers and leaders; Egypt--Religion; Roman Empire
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Description:
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The oldest building [the Old Birth House] in the main temple complex, and the oldest such structure still standing, is the mammisi (birth house) of Nectanebo I (reigned 380-362 BCE). Redecorated early in the Ptolemaic period (304-30 BCE), it was replaced by a larger birth house decorated in the early 2nd century CE under Trajan and Hadrian. [This building]. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module One
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Identifier:
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1A3-EG-D-3-C5
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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