The French scholar (Denon) wrote about him in a book describing Egypt, praising its beauty, colors and scenes: “If I could convey to my readers the feeling that I felt in front of this temple, I was so amazed that I could not judge. All that I saw in architecture before This temple was not enough to impress me ... ”
It is the temple of "Dandara" which is unparalleled in its magnificence and the survival of its architectural condition. Personally, I still think that the Dandara Temple is the most beautiful and wonderful of the existing Egyptian temples.
The ceiling of the main hall rises over the most impressive 18 pillars, each of which is 18 meters high. The top of each column is decorated with four colored faces of Hathor, which means that we have 72 faces of Hathor in that hall, and the restorators have done a work that deserves respect in restoring the colors of the heavenly ceiling .. If you raise your eyes to the top, you will most likely not get it down again until your neck hurts the splendor of the inscriptions.
Sadly, a man named Sebastian Louis Soliner was a French archaeological merchant and is, in fact, a thief, who paid a sum of money to a Frenchman, to remove the Zodiac from the roof of Dandara, and indeed they separated it, and transferred it to France, and he said that from this moment it is a French trace, which is stable in the Louvre Currently, another replica made in the same temple has been installed.
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my opinion, despite what was written about the heavenly inscriptions and their interpretations, we did not come to an understanding, what was written, the text has been translated, but the meaning is still absent ..
I leave you with some great pictures of Dandara's columns and roof.
