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Location

  • Egypt, Nag‘ el-Ramla
  • geo:24.08527,32.886444
  • Location: correct and verified

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Classification

  • temple
  • Visible

Identifiers

Satet's Temple on Elephantine Island

data access 25199

The temple of "Lady of the Town," the antelope goddess Satet on Elephantine Island. The earliest sanctuary was built ca 3200 BC and was a  mudbrick building between three tall granite boulders. The most imposing temple was built by Queen Hatshepsut ( r. 1473-1458) and and Tuthmose III (r. 1479–1425 BC).

See:

  1. Margaret Bunson, Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, Infobase Publishing 2014, p. 58

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2016-02-10) , last updated by René Voorburg (2022-11-22), with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/25199
Data downloads: KML
Suggested citation: , E. and Voorburg, R., Satet's Temple on Elephantine Island. https://vici.org/vici/25199, accessed 2025-12-08.