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Philae, Egypt: Baboon Playing a Stringed Instrument, Temple of Hathor

Country: Egypt
Location: Philae
Region: South of Aswan, located on the artificial island of Agilkia in Lake Nasser (Nubia)
Area: Hathor Temple
Material: Limestone
Description: Baboon (god Thoth) playing a stringed instrument relief surrounded by hieroglyphics on a column in the forecourt of the Hathor Temple at Philae. Originally located on the island of Philae near the First Cataract. Largely flooded after the construction of the first Aswan damn in 1906, but rescued and relocated to the island of Agilkia in the 1960s in anticipation of the flooding from the High Aswan Dam.
Category: Reliefs, Inscriptions
Type: Relief on column
Period: Hellenistic
Date: 330 BCE – 27 BCE
Credit: Solange Ashby, January 2011

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