Temple of Ellesiya - Egypt, Italy


General Attributes
DOI10.26301/6hsn-pw42
Project NameTemple of Ellesiya - Egypt
CountryItaly
Statusupcoming
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Data Types

Data Type Size Device Name Device Type
LiDAR - Terrestrial1.2 GBLeica BLK360 G2 Time of Flight Scanner
Background
Site Descriptionfrom: https://collezioni.museoegizio.it/en-GB/material/S_18016 Tuthmosis III (1479-1425 BC) ordered a small temple to be carved out of the rock at Ellesiya, not far from Abu Simbel. It was dedicated to Horus of Miam and Satet, and was only accessible from the river. The inside had an inverted T-plan formed of a corridor and two side chambers. On the walls are scenes showing the king offering to Egyptian and Nubian deities. The images face towards the back wall, against which are half-in-the-round statues of Horus, Satet and Tuthmosis III enthroned. The decoration was hammered out in places during the reign of Akhenaten (1352-1336), and subsequently restored by Ramesses II (1279-1213), who had the triad in the niche at the back reworked to depict Amon, Horus, and the king. The temple eventually became a Christian cult place, as the crosses and five-point stars carved in the entrance portal and on the inner walls bear out. The temple lay inside the region destined to be submerged by lake Nasser, following the construction of the Great Aswan Dam. It was hence among the monuments salvaged by the UNESCO mission to rescue the Nubian temples. It was brought to Turin in 1967, and reassembled in the wing of the museum dedicated to Ernesto Schiaparelli.
Project DescriptionUsing BLK360 g2, captured 3 unconstrained scans, between tourist ingresses.
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Collection Date2024-02-27 to 2024-02-27
Publication Date2024-05-15
License TypeCC BY-NC
Entities
ContributorsScott McAvoy , Federico Taverni , Museo Egizio , Cultural Heritage Engineering Initiative (CHEI)
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Citation
Scott McAvoy , Federico Taverni , Museo Egizio , Cultural Heritage Engineering Initiative (CHEI) 2024: Temple of Ellesiya - Egypt - LiDAR - Terrestrial . Collected by . Distributed by Open Heritage 3D. https://doi.org/10.26301/6hsn-pw42

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