Low Stakes Assignment 3.

The temple of Dendur from Nubia, completed by 10 B.C. during the roman reign of

Augustus. Is one of the dozens of temples that once formed a landscape along the Nile River

in Lower Nubia during the egyptian civilizations. The earliest of these sanctuaries were built

during the eighteenth dynasty pharaohs and the last of them under the Roman rule.

This last one, despite being built under roman reign of Augustus, does not follow any roman

style. Instead it follows its original Egyptian design, architecture and decoration. On the walls

of the temple are carved scenes of the king, worshiping and offering to the ​deities and gods,

Isis, Osiris, Horus, and others. The king depicted as a pharaoh is ​Augustus, who had many

more temples erected in Egyptian style, honoring Egyptian deities.

This temple being a transition of the egyptian civilizations to the later roman empire is an

example of how one civilization or empire in this case the romans used and were inspired by

the art and architecture of earlier civilization the egypts and used them in order to rise their

own civilizations.