They Moved several old Things From Where They Were Found.

Because a massive dam was built in Aswan, some of the old temples had to be moved to what is now called New Kalabsha, an island near Aswan. This island is called “New Kalabsha.”

The Kalabsha Temple, which was in this area and was dedicated to the Nubian god Mandalas, is the most famous building that was brought back to its former glory. The temple is 74 meters long from front to back, making it the most extended freestanding building in all of Egyptian Nubia, and it is also the widest because it is 33 meters deep.

Only three of the chambers inside have been fully painted, and one of them has an inscription written by the king of Nubia around the time that Christianity started in the sixth century AD. On the island, both the Roman kiosk at Kertassi and the church at Dedwen were moved to where they are now. During the reign of Ramses II, both of these temples were built. Two other temples on the island, Bayt al-Wali, and Jurfa Husayn have also been brought back to their former glory.

Between 1961 and 1963, a group of West Germans took over 13,000 pieces of sandstone from the ancient Kalabsha Temple. After that, these stones were moved somewhere else.

 

The First Step in Building The Temple

 

Ancient Telmis may have been fifty kilometers to the south, where the temple of Kalabsha once stood. Tel was named Bab Kalabsha because it was on both sides of the Nile at the point where the river got narrow.

This is where the Nile was at its narrowest, which is why. The temple was built in the last century before Christ when Augustus was the ruler of Rome. A temple from the 18th Dynasty is thought to have had a colonnaded hall with a statue of Amenophis II. Also, a black granite statue of Thutmose III standing by the river has been seen in the area since the turn of the last century, but no one knows where it is.

During the years 37 and 41 AD, Emperors Gaius (also known as Caligula) and Trajan (also known as Trajan) made more changes to the temple. After the temple was finished, these changes were made to it.

 

The Temple Was Perfectly Built and Decorated.

 

The intricately carved decorations on the temple’s different parts aren’t finished yet, except for the halls inside the temple itself. Graffiti is written all over the city.

Some of it is carved at an angle and shows different pictures, most of which are of hawks. The beautiful building is set up so that its long axis is almost parallel to the east-west axis of the temple and the paved road that runs next to it. The building has been well taken care of, except for the cornice. Other than a sun disc that rises over the entrance, it has no decorations. On the right side of the door is a picture of the god Horus.

Behind him is an image of Emperor Augustus. At the main entrance to the temple, you can see Coptic writing and crosses. With these features, you can tell that the building was once a Christian church.

 

The temple was built in stages. First, the grand entrance was put in place. Then, the courtyard, the vertical colonnaded hall, and the front lobbies were built. The Kalabsha Temple had 14 pillars, two on each of the open courtyard’s north, east, and south sides. Only the two pillars in the north and south, which are typical of Greco-Roman architecture, have kept their original height and floral designs. These are the only pillars left.

 

The crowns’ trimmings are spread out around the courtyard, switching between the left and right sides. The two on the far right and at the bottom are meant to look like palm fronds with bunches of dates hanging from them. Since there are no decorations on the walls of the open courtyard, they can’t be used as decorations.

 

Nilometer

 

You can see the round nilometer on the opposite southern side of the pass. It has been moved to a higher spot, well above where the water is now, and a ladder has been put up so people can get to it.

Ancient Egyptians used a “nilometer” to measure how much the Nile flooded during the summer. People in the northern parts of the empire were told about the likely flood limit, which would show how much work would be needed to build canals to control the extra water.

This was done as part of an effort to keep order in the far northern provinces of the empire. Second, depending on how high the floods are expected, tax collectors will have a better idea of how much money they can expect to make from the crop the following spring. This is possible because flood levels can be predicted.

 

Results that are almost there

 

It can be found behind the chapel to the southwest of the temple. On each side of the space is a small stone room with walls made of granite columns. Just inside the entrance to the chamber, several reliefs show an unnamed pharaoh making a sacrifice to the Nubian god Edwin. Those reliefs are the only things that make the room look nice. Since this chapel used to be surrounded by an adobe wall and was inside the temple, likely, it was once a place where babies were born.

 

Northeast of the temple tower, there is an unfinished chapel that was started by Ptolemy IX but was never finished. Before the enormous temple was built, the chapel was built. The outside of the chapel is plain, but the inside is richly painted with reliefs of the Pharaoh making sacrifices to the gods Elephantine, Khum, Satis, Anukis, Mandulis, Wadgit, Osiris, Isis, and Horus.

 

In 593 BC, Samtychus II, king of the 26th Dynasty, put up a granite stele to mark the end of a battle with the Nubians that he had won. This stele is on the top level of the temple, on the north side. On the mountain’s southern side, there is another group of old rock carvings. They were made between 5000 and 3000 BC. These statues were brought up from the south of the United States. They show a wide range of animals, such as elephants and deer.