{"id":458542,"date":"2010-03-22T06:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-6444548686757220937"},"modified":"2010-03-22T09:36:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T13:36:34","slug":"photo-for-today-temple-of-kalabsha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/458542","title":{"rendered":"Photo for Today &#8211; Temple of Kalabsha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_GkACkMnhFU0\/S6THiJ8FmWI\/AAAAAAAAKVc\/l2L4p3siOsM\/s1600-h\/185_8563.JPG\"><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_GkACkMnhFU0\/S6TGkggCvaI\/AAAAAAAAKVU\/ncIjjPQw0tI\/s1600-h\/185_8553.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_GkACkMnhFU0\/S6TGkggCvaI\/AAAAAAAAKVU\/ncIjjPQw0tI\/s320\/185_8553.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450699779527064994\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Temple of Kalabsha with the Kiosk of Qertassi in the foreground<br \/>New Kalabsha Island, near Aswan<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_GkACkMnhFU0\/S6THiJ8FmWI\/AAAAAAAAKVc\/l2L4p3siOsM\/s1600-h\/185_8563.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 205px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_GkACkMnhFU0\/S6THiJ8FmWI\/AAAAAAAAKVc\/l2L4p3siOsM\/s320\/185_8563.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450700838622566754\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Pylon, Temple of Kalabsha<\/p>\n<p>Kalabsha is the biggest of the Nubian Temples after Abu Simbel.<br \/>It was originally located at Talamis, which has been submerged by<br \/>the waters of Lake Nasser.<br \/>It is a Roman period temple built during the reign of Augustus and was dedicated to<br \/>Nubian deity Mandulis\/Merwel, who is usually shown as a human<br \/>crown composed of ram&#8217;s horns, plumes and sun disks.  He is also shown<br \/>in the temple as a falcon with a man&#8217;s head.<br \/>It was divided into 13,000 blocks for its removal to the island of New<br \/>Kalabsha, which it shares with other re-homed monuments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6760875-6444548686757220937?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Temple of Kalabsha with the Kiosk of Qertassi in the foregroundNew Kalabsha Island, near Aswan Pylon, Temple of Kalabsha Kalabsha is the biggest of the Nubian Temples after Abu Simbel.It was originally located at Talamis, which has been submerged bythe waters of Lake Nasser.It is a Roman period temple built during the reign of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}