New Kalabsha Island
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Aug 04, 2021 04:11 PM
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History
New Kalabsha is a promontory located near Aswan. It currently is the site of several ancient temples relocated to avoid the rising waters of Lake Nasser created by the construction of the Aswan High Dam.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/633872579
23.9617425671, 32.8664954175
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of New Kalabsha Island (modern)
- None
- New Kalabsha Island located at Talmis (unspecified date range)
- Per-Ptah relocated to New Kalabsha Island (AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Temple of Dedwen relocated to New Kalabsha Island (unspecified date range)
- Temple of Kalabsha relocated to New Kalabsha Island (AD 1900 - AD 2099)
island
Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, 'New Kalabsha Island: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/633872579> [accessed: 27 September 2023]
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