John Edward Cooper’s Notes
Tuesday 7 February 2012 (1)
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[2012] [Monday 6 February 2012 (1), (2)] The schedule for today was:
 07:44:15 Hazy morning sun We went ashore, boarded our minibus parked in a dusty little square, and went off to Dendarah Temple. There was a haze, which we often found on this holiday, and it got pleasantly warm, not only-just-tolerably hot as yesterday.   09:20:37  09:21:39  09:23:44  09:24:50 Ancient mud brick walls surrounding the temple complex itself, which is Ptolemaic  09:25:56 A structure off to the right  09:29:15  09:30:56   Mehran trying out a sarcophagus for size — two photos taken by Margaret  09:31:15  09:31:44  09:32:34  09:32:56  09:33:08   Two photos by Mehran  09:35:58  09:36:46  09:38:50  09:39:46  09:39:58  09:40:06  09:41:08  09:41:14  09:41:40 Entrance to the passageway up to the upper floor  09:42:20 Up flights of shallow steps  Photo by Mehran  09:43:02 A small window  Photo by Mehran  09:44:06 On the roof  09:46:30 Steps even further up (we didn’t go up to that level)  Photo by Mehran  09:48:26  09:48:46  09:49:06  09:49:52  09:50:44  Photo by Mehran  09:54:10 Fire-blackened ceiling from when the temple was used as a dwelling  09:55:12  09:56:22  09:57:36 Descending to the ground floor again   Two photos by Mehran  09:58:40  Photo by Mehran  10:00:02 Steps down to the crypt  Photo by Mehran, showing the very low entrance to the crypt. Because of restrictions in the use of arms and left hip and knee, I went through on my bum. Janet also went in, but the other women in our group didn’t.  10:01:06 Is that someone going out, or someone coming in backwards?  10:01:14  10:01:40  10:03:30 Back outside, Ahmed showed us the wall with Cleopatra VII portrayed, with her son by Marcus Antonius. I got a “card full” message when I attempted to photograph it, though. We also passed by the sacred pool, and got to the “Nilometer”. I deleted an earlier movie clip, and freed up memory to start snapping again.  10:14:58 The “Nilometer”  10:15:18 The rear wall, with lion-headed gargoyles  10:15:46  10:17:44 The interior of the now dried up sacred pool   Two photos by Mehran  10:19:34 Cleopatra and her son…  10:20:10 …mirrored at the other end of the wall — as typical of much Egyptian art  10:21:00 A nearby archaeological dig  10:24:02  10:24:56 Was it Drew who pointed out the intricacy of the detail on the bas relief?  10:25:12  10:25:46 Intricately detailed bas relief  Photo by Mehran — not the most welcome sight of our holiday!  Photo by Mehran  10:28:28 Mud brick outer wall from the inside…  10:31:30 …and from the outside  10:37:02 A laughing dove, which seemed to be the equivalent in Egypt of our collared dove  Large mosaic sculpture on a traffic island in Qena, viewed from the rear of our minibus — photo by Mehran Back in the cabin — a lotus flower awaited us!  10:57:42 We met with Ahmed in the upstairs lounge.… [Continued at Tuesday 7 February 2012 (2)] |
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