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The Roman mammisi. The Roman mammisi is a subsidiary building dating to the reigns of Trajan and Marcus Aurelius. Numerous reliefs of Trajan making offerings to Egyptian deities can be seen. [7] The presence of the Roman mammisi at the Dendera Temple Complex is indicative of the long and complicated history of the Romans in Egypt.
A mammisi (mamisi) is an ancient Egyptian small chapel attached to a larger temple (usually in front of the pylons [1]), built from the Late Period, [2] [3] and associated with the nativity of a god. [1] The word is derived from Coptic – the last phase of the ancient Egyptian language – meaning "birth place".
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English: Emperor Trajan, Dendera. Reference: (in English) (2015) SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, Profile, p. 424 ISBN: 978-1-84765-441-0. Relief panel from the impressive mammisi at Dendera dating mainly to the Roman period, these scenes depicting Emperor Trajan in Egyptian guise making offerings to Hathor.
The present Temple of Hathor dates back to July 54 BC, at the time of Ptolemy XII of the Ptolemaic dynasty, [13] and was completed by the Roman emperor Tiberius, but it rests on the foundations of earlier buildings dating back at least as far as Khufu (known as the Great Pyramid builder Cheops, the second Pharaoh of the 4th dynasty [c. 2613–c ...
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The Los Angeles Temple was announced on March 23, 1937, by church president Heber J. Grant, when the church purchased 24.23 acres (98,000 m 2) from the Harold Lloyd Motion Picture Company. Construction was to begin soon thereafter, but financial difficulties relating to the Great Depression and World War II delayed its construction.
English: Trajan on the Roman Mammisi at Dendera, Egypt. Reference: (in English) (2015) SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome , Profile, p. 424 ISBN : 978-1-84765-441-0 . Date