Komombo: Nile Guard
This afternoon the weather can reach 39 degrees Cairo. There is a temple that became one of the guards nil, at least be a little cool head in very hot temperatures. This temple is named Komombo.
Komombo is a shrine or temple first built by Tuhmosis III, six of the pharaohs to the eighteenth dynasty. For twenty-two years earlier, Thutmosis lead as regent from one region dominated by her stepmother; Hatshepshut. Komombo today besides the name of a temple, is also the name of the area where the temple stood Komombo. This area lies approximately 29 kilometers from the city of Aswan, southern Egypt very close to the Sudanese state. Want your holiday here? Visit payday loans online to get your holiday money.
Komombo Yunai-Roman era is the settlement of the Greeks who became the agricultural area. One part of the Aswan region, Komombo built in the 2nd century BC. Construction of the temple where one aims to honor the god named Sobek, god of the human body and the head of a crocodile. Sobek often associated with evil gods.
There is uniqueness in the form of temple building Komombo compared to other temples scattered in the river Nile in Aswan and Luxor. Komombo entrance to the temple is divided into two parts: the southern and northern parts. Southern entrance of the temple dedicated to the crocodile god Sobek, god of fertility gods Hathor and Khonsu creator of the world, supposedly they are all children of the god Sobek.
While the northern entrance is dedicated to the falcon god Haroeris, also known as “Horus the Elder” along with Tasenetnofret and Panebtawy (Lord of the Two Lands). It is also symmetrical shape of the building along the main axes of the same alias.
Location Komombo temple mound right in front of the river nil. Currently there are several cafes that provided for the tourists who visit, there are also cruises which are always parked in the river to nil, so in addition to a historical tour visitors are pampered with the Greek heritage of Roman temples also spoiled with “Cleopatra-Cleopatra” in the new restaurant.
Unfortunately, as all temples are scattered in Egypt. Temple Komombo also become victims of earthquakes and eruptions of the annual Nile River before the construction of an artificial lake in Aswan Annasr by UN agencies, UNESCO. Even former stone reliefs from the temple ruins, at the time taken by a local Coptic people to build a church. Restoration of the temple was first done by Jacques de Morgan in 1893.
Increasingly enter into the temple site, we found carved in stone wall depicting technological advances at the time. There are a few pictures of medical equipment used in the Greek. There is a picture of scissors, operating tools, scalpels, forceps and bottles of medicine which is used as a medical instrument. Also found two seated goddess, which performs labor.
When I try to exit from the rear of the temple, I was amazed with the sarcophagus which is used for the mummy, the article, the existing sarcophagus in this temple is small, not comparable with the existing sarcophagus in the heritage of other temples like the one in the Valley of the Kings (tombs of the kings) at Dar Bahri. I have not found the answer to why the mummy in this small temple.
Part of the temple closest to the river there are also nil large wells called the Nilometer. Development wells are intended to measure the level of river water levels are close to nil. When the discharge of well water is increasing, there is increased discharge of river water at nil. Development wells are also intended to save the temple from the annual floods that occurred in the areas crossed by the river nil.
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