The Temple of kom ombo - Detailed description 2

Temple kom ombo nile

The first hypostyle hall
The first hypostyle hall has three transversal rows of fine bundle columns each with a bill capital.
Some of them are lotus-shaped, others papyrus, and one is even palm-shaped.
The hypostyle hall has papyrus capitals on the columns.
Here, there is an inventory of the scared places

of

Egypt

, the gods of the main towns and the local and national festivals.
The ceiling
The ceiling is decorated with scenes, with the vulture, the symbol of Nekhbet and Uadjit.
The left side of the ceiling of the first Hypostyle Hall is decorated with flying vultures wearing the crowns of Upper and Lower

Egypt

.
The column
The column shafts are all carved with reliefs: above, under the capitals, with a band of

hieroglyphs

with the symbol of life (ankh) and below with the pharaoh rendering homage to the various gods.
The same offering scenes are repeated on the walls of the hall: the pharaohs depicted are all of the Ptolemaic period, and include Cleopatra VI.
To be noted is the central row of columns which ideally marks the division of the two sanctuaries.
The columns have either the heraldic lily of Upper

Egypt

or
the papyrus symbol of Lower

Egypt

carved on their bases.

A tiny relief of a woman giving birth and a woman breast-feeding
between the doors leading to the inner vestibule, at roughly waist
level.

The anti chamber
In the anti chamber, there are scenes depicting the goddess Seshat launching the building of the Temple, followed by a scene of the completed Temple with the King throwing natron in a purification ceremony.
The staircase leading to the roof is all that remains of the offering hall.
The hall of offering
There are two distinctly separate entrances lead to the second hypostyle hall, or "hall of offering",.
Here too the central row of columns acts as a divider.
Both the architecture and the decoration are the same as in the first hall, for the same scenes and subjects are repeated.
The figures depicted this time are

Ptolemy

VIII, Evergetes II, his wife Cleopatra and

Ptolemy

XII, Neo Dionysos.

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