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Dendera Temple complex ( Part 6 ) , The Meanings and Definitions

• Propylon ( noun ) : The porch , vestibule , or entrance of an edifice . And that serves as the entrance to the Acropolis in Athens . In ancient Egyptian architecture, a monumental gateway, usually between two towers in outline like truncated pyramids, of which one or a series stood before the actual entrance or pylon of most temples or other important buildings .

Dendera Temple complex ( Part 5 )

Subsidiary chambers , storerooms and crypts :-

Ranged around the central area of the temple's shrine were chambers where the statues of visiting deities would be placed – sometimes with connected suites of rooms for the visitor's use ; storerooms for cultic equipment such as the clothing for the god's image , incense , etc ; vesting chambers where the priests would prepare themselves for special ceremonies ; and other rooms having to do with the daily course of temple ritual .

Dendera Temple complex ( Part 4 ) , Outbuildings of Hathor temple :

- Beyond the stone enclosure wall , there are the ruins of various outlying buildings of the complex .

- Moving towards the main temple from the gate and on its western side are the remains of the Roman period birth house built ( mammisi ) by Augustus shortly after Egypt was added to the Roman Empire .

Dendera Temple complex ( Part 3 )

19 - The staircase to the west of the offering hall , which was used by the priests to ascend to the roof , ( with the ascending figures of the king and various priests with the shrine of the goddess carved on its right-hand wall ) gave access to the roof of the temple and a chapel , where the goddess stayed overnight before beholding the rising sun in a symbolic union with the solar disc .

Dendera Temple complex ( Part 2 )

1 - The whole complex covers some 40,000 square meters and is surrounded by a hefty mud brick enclosed wall , while its original space is amounts to 81m × 38m , and it includes many temples and religious buildings . 

Dendera Temple complex ( Part 1 )

About the temple :

• Dendera temple is one of the most important and latest temple sites of Egypt, and provides examples of a particularly rich variety of later temple features .