Temple to Ramesses II 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
Jul 10, 2024 03:52 PM
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History
The larger of the two temples at Abu Simbel, dedicated to the triad of Amun, Ra-Horakhty, and Ptah, as well as the deified Ramesses II. 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/424487311
22.336171, 31.625842
- Relocated Modern Locations:
- Imagery Location of Temple (Current Location) (modern) accuracy: +/- 4 meters.
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery Location of Temple (Original Location) (1548 BC - AD 1450) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Temple to Ramesses II at Abu Simbel located at Abu Simbel (unspecified date range)
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- Citation:
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 Ramesses II at Abu Simbel: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/424487311> [accessed: 09 October 2024]
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