Contra Latopolis

Contra Latopolis (sometime named Al Hilla [1] or El-Hella [2][3]) is at latitude 25.284 and longitude 32.583. [4]

Building of a temple

During the reign of Cleopatra,[5] a temple [6] to Isis [7] was built opposite Latopolis, or Esne as it is now known,[8] on the other side of the Nile from this settlement. The Roman people having constructed this, named the building Contra Latopolis. Very little has survived into the current age of this construction, all but a, "massive portico upheld by two rows of four columns each"

The temple built together with these mentioned structures includes, positioned on the overhanging eaves, a globe with wings outstretched to either side. The walls of the building were found covered with hieroglyphic writing. Of the names amongst them, the earliest of these showed Cleopatra Cocce (Cleopatra III),[9] and her son Ptolemy Soter, the most recently written showed the name of Emperor Commodus,[10] the decorations were made between the reign of Cleopatra III and Soter II.[7] The temple described by Thomas Dudley Fosbroke as "the most perfect in proportion and pure in execution in the entire Egyptian world" did also contain walls covered like as if a gallery in a manner that later in the churches existing for the use of modern society became known as Triforia, the observation conveyed in his writing to us from Denon.[11]

The temple of Esné,the ancient Latopolis,to me appears the perfection of the art of Egyptian places,the most beautiful production of the antiquity;since the Edfu ( or Great Apollinopolis ), of the most great,most conserved,and best situated,of the monuments of the Egyptians: in its actual state it appears again as a fortress of a master." ("Le temple d'Esné, l'ancienne Latopolis, me parut la perfection de l'art chez les Égyptiens, une des plus belles productions de l'antiquité; celui d'Edfu (ou Apollinopolis Magna), un des plus grands, des plus conservés, et le mieux situé, de tous les monuments de l'Égypte: en son état actuel il paraît encore une forteresse qui la domine." [Denon's]) [12][13]

The columns of a building in Contra Latopolis are stated as from construction dating from the Ptolemic period, the columns of buildings from Contra latopolis considered particularly distinct examples a formal order of architecture where the god Hathor is placed as capitals upon the columns of temples.(This shown by Gaston Camille Charles Maspero).[14]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Al Hillah". mapcarta.com. Retrieved 2011-09-21.
  2. 1 2 Contra Latopolis (El-Hella). trismegistos.org. Retrieved 2011-09-21.
  3. ↑ K. Baedeker (firm), 1914 books.google.co.uk Egypt and the Sûdân: handbook for travellers (458 pages) [Retrieved 2011-12-12]
  4. ↑ NASA Goddard Space Flight centre tageo.com website [Retrieved 2011-09-21]
  5. ↑ Abbott, Jacob (1803-1879) archive.org History of Cleopatra, queen of Egypt 1851 [Retrieved 2011-09-21]
  6. ↑ Sharpe,Samuel (1799-1881)archive.org The history of Egypt:from the earliest times till the conquest by the Arabs A.D. 640:in two volumes (1905) [Retrieved 2011-09-21]
  7. 1 2 3 Günther Hölbl [books.google.co.uk A history of the Ptolemaic empire] Check |url= value (help). Routledge, 2001 ISBN 0-415-20145-4. Retrieved 2011-12-12.
  8. ↑ Thomas Dudley Fosbroke (Reverend) archive.org Encyclopedia of antiquities, and elements of archaeology, classical and mediaeval (1843) [Retrieved 2011-09-21]
  9. ↑ Sally-Ann Ashton books.google.co.uk The last queens of Egypt (177 pages) Pearson Education, 2003 ISBN 0-582-77210-9 [Retrieved 2011-12-12]
  10. ↑ S. RAPPOPORT , Doctor of Philosophy, Basel gutenberg.org HISTORY OF EGYPT [Retrieved 2011-09-21]
  11. ↑ Thomas Dudley Fosbroke pages.15 & books.google.co.uk Encyclopedia of antiquities, and elements of archaeology, classical and mediaeval (1843 ) [Retrieved 2011-09-21]
  12. ↑ gutenberg.org. VOYAGES DANS LA BASSE ET LA HAUTE ÉGYPTE, PENDANT LES CAMPAGNES DE BONAPARTE,EN (1798 ET 1799 [Retrieved 2011-09-22]
  13. ↑ britishmuseum.org [Retrieved 2011-09-22]
  14. ↑ Gaston C.C. Maspero hotfreebooks.com Manual Of Egyptian Archaeology And Guide To The Study Of Antiquities In Egypt [Retrieved 2011-09-22]
  15. ↑ tageo.com map [El hella (Morroco)] [Retrieved 2011-12-11]

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