Temple of Dakka
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temple-of-dakka-205-3761987
title:
Temple of Dakka
text:
Ad-Dakka was a place in Lower Nubia. It is the site of the Greco-Roman Temple of Dakka, dedicated to Thoth, the god of wisdom in the ancient Egyptian pantheon. The temple was initially a small one-room shrine or chapel, first begun in the 3rd century BC by a Meroitic king named Arqamani in collaboration with Ptolemy IV who added an antechamber and a gate structure. Ptolemy IX "subsequently enlarged the temple by adding a pronaos with two rows of probably three columns." During the Roman period,
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Ancient Egyptian temple
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Dakka
date created:
2008-09-22T06:05:01Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T08:04:51Z
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