Temple to Nefertari at Abu Simbel
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Nate Nagy, Tom Elliott
Creators: Nate Nagy, Tom Elliott
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Mar 28, 2022 05:38 PM
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History
The smaller of the two temples at Abu Simbel, dedicated to the goddess Hathor and the deified queen Nefertari. The temple was relocated between 1964 and 1968 to prevent its submersion under Lake Nasser after the construction of the Aswan High Dam.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/115852119
22.3367165, 31.6272865
- Relocated Modern Locations:
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery Location of Temple (Original Location) (1548 BC - AD 1450)
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- Temple to Nefertari at Abu Simbel located at Abu Simbel (unspecified date range)
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temple
- Citation:
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- DBpedia, Abu Simbel
Pleiades
Points were digitized on September 15, 2011 by hand in Google Earth using 5.2.1.1329 (beta) at an "eye altitude" of 5000 ft.
Nate Nagy, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker, and Sean Gillies, 'Temple to Nefertari at Abu Simbel: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/115852119> [accessed: 03 October 2023]
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