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Dendera
ⲛⲓⲧⲛⲧⲱⲣⲉ ⲛⲓⲧⲉⲛⲧⲱⲣⲓ دندرة | |
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     Clockwise from top: Entrance to Dendara Temple, Dendara Temple Complex, Inside Hathor Temple, Hathor Temple Complex | |
  Dendera Location in Egypt | |
| Coordinates: 26°10′05″N 32°39′22″E / 26.16806°N 32.65611°E | |
| Country |  Egypt |
| Governorate | Qena |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EST) |
Dendera (Arabic: دَنْدَرة Dandarah; Ancient Greek: Τεντυρις or Τεντυρα; Bohairic Coptic: ⲛⲓⲧⲉⲛⲧⲱⲣⲓ, romanized: Nitentōri; Sahidic Coptic: ⲛⲓⲧⲛⲧⲱⲣⲉ, romanized: Nitntōre),[1][2] also spelled Denderah, ancient Iunet 𓉺𓈖𓏏𓊖 “jwn.t”,[3] Tentyris[4][5],(Arabic: Ewan-t إيوان-ة ),[6] or Tentyra[7] is a small town and former bishopric in Egypt situated on the west bank of the Nile, about 5 kilometres (3 mi) south of Qena, on the opposite side of the river. It is located approximately 60 kilometres (37 mi) north of Luxor and remains a Latin Catholic titular see. It contains the Dendera Temple complex, one of the best-preserved temple sites from ancient Upper Egypt.
- ^ Gauthier, Henri (1929). Dictionnaire des Noms Géographiques Contenus dans les Textes Hiéroglyphiques Vol. 6. p. 23.
- ^ "Tentyris (Dendera)". Trismegistos. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
- ^ Philae-Data. "Iunet (Dendera)". ancientworlds.net. Archived from the original on 2008-05-17.
- ^ "Linguistic Bibliography". blonline.nl. Archived from the original on 2014-03-04.
- ^ "Félix Teynard - Dendérah (Tentyris), Temple d'Athôr - Face Postérieure - Cléopatre et Cæsarion - The Metropolitan Museum of Art". metmuseum.org.
- ^ Hawas, Zahi (2002). مخطوط معجم اللغة المصرية القديمة احمد كمال كمال. الجزء االثاني عشر (in Arabic). Cairo: Al-maǧlis al-aʿlá li-l-aṯār, high council of antiquities. p. 496. ISBN 9773053474.
- ^ In old sources such as Belzoni.