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		Reconstruction of the Temple of Het-Hert at Dendera from Dietrich Wildung's Egypt: From Prehistory to the Romans
		The Temple of Het-Hert at Dendera, the capital of the 6th Nome of Upper Egypt, was built between the 1st century BCE and the 1st century CE, although it was never completely finished.
		The eastern Osiris chapel has an interesting depiction of the ritual performed during the Mysteries of Wesir festival in which the "Wesir bed" (an effigy of Wesir formed from linen) is filled with earth, sown with grain, and watered until it sprouts, symbolizing eternal life in the cycle of nature.
	www.hethert.org /dendera.html (475 words)

	Dendera -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Dendera (also spelled Denderah), is a little town in (A republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971; site of an ancient civilization that flourished from 2600 to 30 BC) Egypt.
		Located rather isolated on the desert edge, about 2.5 km south-west of the Town, lay what Dendera is known for (nobody knows the town), the mostly (additional info and facts about Greco-Roman) Greco-Roman Temple Complex, Dendera, known in ancient Egyptians as Lunet or Tantere.
		Dendera was a site for chapels or shrines from the beginning of history of ancient Egypt.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/de/dendera.htm (571 words)

	DENDERA - LoveToKnow Article on DENDERA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The sanctuary is surrounded by a corridor into which the chambers open: on the west side is an apartment forming a court and kiosk for the celebration of the feast of the New Year, the principal festival of Dendera.
		Petries excavation of the cemetery behind the temple enclosures revealed burials dating from the fourth dynasty onwards, the most important being mastables of the period from the sixth to the eleventh dynasties; many of these exhibited a peculiar degradation of the contemporary style of sculpture.
		The zodiacs of the temple of Dendera gave rise to a considerable literature before their late origir, was established by Champollion in 1822: one of them, from a chamber on.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DE/DENDERA.htm (684 words)

	Egyptian holiday: Dendera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Dendera is rich in history, temples have been erected there from as early as the Old Kingdom.
		Although Dendera has been the religious site of many Egyptian periods, the present day temple is from the Ptolemic period (ie during a succession of foreign rulers named Ptolemy who adopted Egyptian cultures) and was updated during the Roman period.
		Dendera is the only temple which has an accessible roof top to the public; the views are outstanding.
	www.egyptianholiday.net /dendera.htm (1252 words)

	Temple of the Goddess Hathor, Dendera, Egypt
		It was a venerated place of pilgrimage where miraculous cures were effected by the goddess; it was a sort of hospital where various physiological, psychological and magical therapies were practiced; and it was the scene of great processions and festivals throughout the astrological cycle.
		A feature of Dendera not found elsewhere in Egyptian temples are the dozen mysterious crypts, some underground, some enclosed within the massive double walls of the upper temple.
		Enclosed within the precincts of the Dendera complex are a sacred lake, a temple of the goddess Isis, and a brick sanatorium where divine healing was practiced.
	www.sacredsites.com /africa/egypt/dendera.html (539 words)

	Dendera and the Temple of Hathor
		Dendera is located about 60 kilometers north of Luxor on the west bank of the Nile River opposite the provincial modern town of Qena.
		Early texts refer to a temple at Dendera which was rebuilt during the Old Kingdom, and several New Kingdom monarchs, including Tuthmosis III, Amenhotep III and Ramesses II and III are known to have embellished the structure.
		Dendera was considered one of Osiris' many tombs, and the shrines, which have no link with Hathor, were used to celebrate his death and resurrection.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/dendera.htm (3821 words)

	Dendera: Temple of Hathor
		The temple at Dendera, dedicated to Hathor, belongs to the Ptolemaic era of Egypt.
		The temple of Hathor at Dendera was built between 125 BCE and 65 CE belonging to the Greaco-Roman period.
		Dendera had since long been a cult centre, also then with the goddess of joy, Hathor, as the central deity.
	lexicorient.com /egypt/dendera.htm (127 words)

	dendera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Dendera, which was the capital of Sixth Nome of Upper Egypt, is about 37 miles away from Luxor.
		Dendera was the religious center of Hathor, a mother goddess who was frequently worshipped in Egypt.
		The temple that can be seen today is actually dated to the Graeco-Roman period of 332 B.C. to A.D. It is hypothesized that the intact temple was in fact built by Ptolemy XII some time in the 1st century B.C. Inside the temple are fascinating crypts in the floor and in the walls.
	www.uwm.edu /Course/egypt/0100/LOCATS/dendera.htm (264 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Heritage \| The navigation of Hathor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The second great festival at Dendera took place on the ancient New Year's Day, when the image of Hathor, which was believed gradually to have lost efficacy in the darkened sanctuary in the course of the year, would be taken to the top of the temple to be reimbued with power from the rising sun.
		The surviving Birth House at Dendera was reconstructed by the Emperor Augustus near the ruins of the one built by Nectanebo, and is adorned with reliefs added by the Emperor Trajan.
		The Birth House of Augustus at Dendera was converted into a church in the fifth century, and a Christian basilica was built in the area between it and the original Birth House of Nectanebo.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/690/he1.htm (1577 words)

	Encyclopedia: Dendera Temple complex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Dendera Temple complex, (Ancient Egyptian: Lunet or Tantere).
		Ancient Egypt Hathor Temple is the main temple in the Dendera Temple Complex, built around 1st century BC.
		What is the relief at Dendera The Dendera light is a controversial stone relief located in the Hathor temple at the Dendera Temple complex.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dendera-Temple-complex (995 words)

	Dendara temple (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Dendera is located in an area that in ancient times was known as Iunet, or Tantere (Greek Tentyris), which was a provincial capital and and important religious site during several periods of Egyptian history.
		To a certain extent, Dendera is an anomaly, for though it faces the Nile like most other ancient Egyptian temples, here, due to a bend in the river, it actually faces north rather than the east-west orientation of other temples.
		Dendera, like most of the important temples, is actually a complex surrounded by a mudbrick enclosure wall.
	www.a-1hotels.com /eg/history/dendara.html (2599 words)

	Dendera Temple
		An inscription in Dendera temple shows that the oldest cult building on this site was constructed during the lifetime of Khufu in the Old Kingdom.
		This temple, in its present form, was built during the Ptolemaic and Roman periods, with relief work on the rear external wall depicting Cleopatra VII and her son Caesarion.
		The finest examples of crypts are to be seen at the Dendera Temple dedicated to Hathor, where there is a total of three crypts, one each in the east, the south and the west outer edges of the main temple building.
	users.iafrica.com /g/gr/grenvill/denderah.htm (713 words)

	Out Of Place Artifacts
		Dendera Glyphs, Djed, Ankh and Staff-ScepterAt the Hathor Temple in Dendera, Egypt, several intriguing glyphs are depicting strange scenes.
		It is necessary to acknowledge the possibility that the devices depicted in Dendera may have had entirely different purpose than what is suggested in the analysis.
		Of course, considering that the Dendera glyphs have been 'explained' predominantly during the last century when many devices in use today were yet to be invented, one may understand the confusion of the scholars when trying to interpret their meaning.
	tvufo.tripod.com /id10.html (2322 words)

	Dendera Mission Offers Hope for Children of Zimbabwe - UMNS, 7/12/99 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A rural settlement in a remote area of eastern Zimbabwe near the Mozambique border, the community served by Dendera Mission was largely ignored by government, churches, everyone, according to Jokomo, who heads the United Methodist Church in Zimbabwe.
		Before the sunflower oil-processing plant opened two years ago, Dendera farmers had no choice but to ship their sunflower seeds into Harare, more than three hours away, to be processed.
		Now, Dendera farmers sell their seeds to MRID's plant at the same price paid by Harare processors, but they and their neighbors can buy the oil for only Z$65 a bottle, cutting their cost almost in half.
	gbgm-umc.org /mission_programs/mcr/4.24/dendera.html (1047 words)

	Dendera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Temple of Dendera is one of the largest and must important temples built in ancient Kemet.
		The Temple of Dendera was a special place, not only for erotic dance but where perfumery, cleanliness, and the healing arts were developed and made into a pure art form.
		Once a year "The Divine Flasher" "The Divine Vulva" Divine Lady of a thousand names, Hathor, Goddess of Dendera would float down the Nile from Dendera to Edfu to be with her consort/husband in the "Festival of the Great Meeting".
	www.neberdjer.org /pages/spiritual/dendera.htm (598 words)

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		Biot pinpointed the sky drawn on the ceiling of Dendera at precisely 700 BCE at midnight on summer solstice.
		Striking features of the Dendera Zodiac Scholars are generally agreed that the circumpolar stars are the Jackal, Ursa Minor, containing Polaris, the Thigh is Ursa Major, containing Dubhe, and the upright Hippo is Draco, containing Thuban, which was the pole star during the so-called Pyramid age, circa 2,800 BCE.
		The axis of the temple of Dendera aligns with the figure of a Horus falcon atop a papyrus stem on the zodiac.
	www.queenofcups.com /AR30article.htm (1862 words)

	DENDERA
		Dendera is the modern name given to the ruins of ancient Tentyra, a site dating all the way back to the Old Kingdom.
		We left the cruise ship in a bus that had to be escorted by a pair of Egyptian army jeeps full of men with AK-47 automatic rifles, since the journey was considered too dangerous to be taken alone by tourists.
		The main building of interest at Dendera is the Temple of Hathor (the cow-headed goddess of fertility).
	members.cox.net /ancient-sites/egypt/Dendera.htm (574 words)

	Dendera The temple of Hathor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I remember so well how ten years ago our guide seemed to have stock phrases, one of which concerned; Hathor the goddess of love and beauty with the cow ears and the cow face, which was repeated ad infinitum here in the Temple dedicated to her.
		At Dendera she was considered to be the goddess of fertility and childbirth, and it is possible that it was here that her cult had its origin.
		In the short video notice the square Hathor tops to the columns and the carving of Cleopatra on the rear wall as she and her son make votive offerings to Hathor and the other gods (Horus with his falcon head is easily spotted).
	www.smg-authie.co.uk /egypt/dendera.htm (435 words)

	Friday, January 11, 2002
		Dendera is dedicated to the goddess Hathor, and her cult was established in the area at least as early as the 6th Dynasty.
		The Dendera temple was important in the later eras as a healing center, and these front buildings were used as hospital space.
		A special festival held yearly saw the Dendera temple statue of Hathor placed on a boat and sailed to Edfu several hundred kilometers south, where the great temple of Horus was located.
	www.jhu.edu /~neareast/2002/pages/11102.html (534 words)

	Dendera HR & Benefits - Human Resources Consulting
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		Dendera HR and Benefits will conduct a review of current pay levels and practices to ensure the corporate philosophy is reflected in your pay practices.
		Dendera offers training classes to inform both management and staff how reduce risk and appropriately address complex issues facing companies today.
	www.denderagroup.com /HTML/HR_Consulting.html (360 words)

	Egypt - Dendera
		One of the more interesting things about Dendera is that the visitor can get on to the roof via a staircase set into the temple wall, decorated on both sides with unfortunately unphotographable reliefs.
		In another chapel on the roof is the famous Zodiac of Dendera - this is a reproduction, the original being in the Louvre.
		The birth houses and Coptic church as seen from the roof of the temple.
	www.eternalegypt.co.uk /dendera4.html (107 words)

	Dendera, Egypt - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		Dendera is located 60km north of Luxor on the west bank of the Nile opposite the provincial town of Qena, There visitors will find the Temple of Hathor, never finished, but well preserved.
		On the roof there is a suite of chambers known as the “Osirs suite” The walls of the first room show scenes of the burial goods of Osiris, including his canopic jars and on the ceiling Nut is again shown with other astronomical figures.
		On the other half of the ceiling is a plaster copy of the famous ‘Dendera Zodiac.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /egypt_dendera.htm (355 words)

	Karnak and Dendera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Karnak Temple at Luxor and the Temple of Hathor at Dendera
		At Dendera there are a lot of these areas because the roof has remained intact.
		When walking around Dendera temple I was approached by an Egyptian who motioned me to follow him into the back of the building not visited by many people.
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	Egyptian Stars under Paris Skies
		Since hieroglyphs were to remain unreadable for another two decades, Dendera offered the tantalizing possibility of establishing Egyptian chronology on the basis of something beyond the few Greek and Latin texts that had been carefully studied by Renaissance humanists.
		Since even the Dendera representations must have been preceded by at least several centuries of development, it seemed to the astronomer and the engineer that Dupuis’ arguments for the extraordinary antiquity of Egypt were now seconded by the most modern of exact reasoning and observations.
		The mystery of Dendera was finally solved neither by numbers nor by the sounds of words, but by a new kind of historical understanding, one in which many forms of evidence—linguistic, artistic, literary, and archaeological—were together weighed and confronted with one another.
	pr.caltech.edu /periodicals/EandS/articles/LXVI4/buchwald.html (6793 words)

	The Temple of Dendera
		The policy pursued by Alexander the Great (332 - 323 BCE), in which he portrayed himself as an Egyptian ruler, appears to be have been followed by his Ptolemaic successors.
		Many Egyptian temples, including those at Dendera, Edfu, Esna and Kom Ombo were either rebuilt, repaired or newly founded during this period.
		The columns of the facade and outer hypostyle hall of the temple have capitals in the form of the head of Hathor surmounted by a naos-shaped sistrum, a kind of musical rattle associated with Hathor and symbolic of joy and celebration.
	www.grisel.net /dendera.htm (557 words)

	Abydos and Dendera, Egypt, Temples of Seti I and Hathor. Itinerary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Abydos and Dendera, Egypt, Temples of Seti I and Hathor.
		Temple of Seti I at Abydos and Temple of Hathor at Dendera
		Dendera and Abydos are located north of Luxor.
	www.suziemanley.com /november/month.htm (191 words)

	Departement Oosterse en Slavische Studies
		In the religious practice of the priests of Dendera, the complexes functioned as substitutes for the temples of Dendera and Edfu.
		The rituals that were performed during this feast in Dendera, have up to now never been studied because investigation always concentrated on the feasts in the temple of Edfu.
		The situation is however symptomatic for the study of the Ptolemaic temples: although Dendera is one of the important Ptolemaic temples, the theology and the feasts that were celebrated in the temple, have never been investigated.
	millennium.arts.kuleuven.ac.be /egyptology/onderzoek/postdocpreys.htm (2554 words)

	Dendera, Egypt
		Dendera (also spelled Denderah), is a little town in Egypt.
		Located rather isolated on the desert edge, about 2.5 km south-west of the Town, lay what Dendera is known for, the mostly Greco-Roman Temple Complex, Dendera, known in ancient Egyptian as Lunet or Tantere.
		The Dendera Temple complex is one of the best, if not the best, preserved temple in all Egypt.
	creekin.net /c3320-n58-dendera-egypt.html (133 words)

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		Above: The zodiac that was carved on the ceiling of the temple at Dendera.
		Although the original temple at Dendera was built at the beginning of dynastic Egypt, it is believed that the temple was restored and the zodiac was carved almost 3,000 years later.
		The location of the center of the Dendera Zodiac suggests that it was carved much earlier or carved to represent a much earlier time, when the celestial north pole was close to Thuban, around the beginning of dynastic Egypt.
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