UNEARTHING THE PAST SINCE 1900
UNEARTHING THE PAST SINCE 1900
Country: Egypt
Location: New Kalabsha
Region: South of Aswan, on artificial island in Lake Nasser (Nubia)
Area: Temple of Kalabsha
Material: Limestone
Description: Figural graffito of the Noubade king Silko spearing an enemy while being crowned by an angel on the fa莽ade of the temple of Kalabsha, which was dedicated to the sun god Mandulis. Temple relocated to the Island of New Kalabsha in the 1970s in anticipation of the flooding from the High Aswan Dam.
Category: Reliefs
Type: Graffito
Period: Roman
Date: 27 BCE 鈥� 330 CE
颁谤别诲颈迟:听Solange Ashby January 2011
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