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Templo de Nefertari, Abu Simbel, Egipto, 2022-04-02, DD 128-130 HDR
2022-04-02
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- CC BY-SA 4.0, as the museum states it.
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About this work
Interior of the temple of Nefertari, Abu Simbel, Egypt. The temple, also called Small Temple of Abu Simbel, was built about 100 m (330 ft) northeast of the temple of Ramesses II and was dedicated to the goddess Hathor and Ramesses II's chief consort, Nefertari. This was in fact the second time in ancient Egyptian history that a temple was dedicated to a queen. The first time, Akhenaten dedicated a temple to his great royal wife, Nefertiti. As in the larger temple dedicated to the king, the hypostyle hall in the smaller temple is supported by six pillars; in this case, however, they are not Osiris pillars depicting the king, but are decorated with scenes with the queen playing the sistrum (an instrument sacred to the goddess Hathor), together with the gods Horus, Khnum, Khonsu, and Thoth, and the goddesses Hathor, Isis, Maat, Mut of Asher, Satis and Taweret The capitals of the pillars bear the face of the goddess Hathor; this type of column is known as Hathoric.
