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File, Asuán, Egipto, 2022-04-01, DD 142
2022-04-01
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 4.0, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Kids profiles and older: it shows nature, places, still life or a children's book. How works are placed
About this work
Trajan's Kiosk, Philae, Aswan, Egypt. The unfinished hypaethral temple, currently located on Agilkia Island, is attributed to Trajan, Roman emperor from 98 to 117 AD, due to his depiction as pharaoh seen on some of the interior reliefs. However, the majority of the structure dates to an earlier time, possibly to the reign of Augustus. The temple complex was located originally on Philae Island, near the expansive First Cataract of the Nile in Upper Egypt. The temple complex was dismantled and moved to nearby Agilkia Island as part of the UNESCO Nubia Campaign project, protecting this and other complexes before the 1970 completion of the Aswan High Dam. The function of the 15.85 metres high kiosk was likely "to shelter the bark of Isis at the eastern banks" of Philae island.
