Temple at Edfu

 

 

       Guage the grandeur of this by comparison with the people in the doorway and at the left.  The twin statues of Horus, the falcon god, are 7 or 8 feet tall.  The pair of block-like protuberances at the top of the door originally held the poles of enormous doors, each pole cut from a single tree trunk brought from Lebanon.  And the rectangular holes above the four slats were use to suspend cloth banners, which hung down in the slats.

 

 

 

 

 

Ceiling of the doorway into the public courtyard...

 

          As in most temples, the columns alternate between the forms of papyrus and palm, symbols of Lower and Upper Egypt, which the Pharoahs united.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

       In the dark inner chamber, this alter carved of a single stone -- perhaps 12 feet tall -- held the image of the divinity worshiped here.

 

 

 





 

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