Trip to Egypt, April 2005
The Westbank 3:
The Temple of Het-Hert, the outer part.
Inside the small courtyard:
This is a small Ptolemaic temple, set within a surrounding wall with some other structures.
Thereīs a pronaos and a shrine room with two smaller rooms on either side of it. The reliefs are quite lovely!
Through a hole in the wall the staircase leading up to the roof is seen.
Ascendance is sadly stopped by the fallen down rocks.
Just to the right of this, a few steps lead up to a small transverse hall before the shrine room.
Note the column with the Het-Hert head to the left and the
relief of the barque of Het-Hert in cow form on the back wall.
And the corresponding right side, also with a Het-Hert headed column, or 'half-pillar'.
Closeup on the Het-Hert head.
Closeup on the Het-Hert barque.
Closeup on the ceiling; vultures and stars.
Reliefs just outside the Shrine room.
Or it could be the left hand side room, memory failure here ;)
Light pouring in over the right hand wall, outside one of the small rooms.
I am not sure if this is a window or just a stone missing, but itīs beautiful!
Above the entrance to the right hand side room.
The reliefs next.
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