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Koptos in the Ptolemaic Period (323-30 BC)

The Min temple was totally rebuilt in the Ptolemaic period. The temple was a double temple with two entrances and two axes. It was dedicated to Min and to Isis, who took the role of the wife of Min at Koptos.

(click on the images for a larger picture or more information - marked red)

back pillar of a queen's statue
Block with the name of Ptolemy XII
stelae
faience tile
   
UC 14521 UC 14544 UC 16136
 
Stewart 1983: no. 21

faience lettuce
Isis and Horus; date ?
Greek stela
UC 34696
UC 14763

 


 

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