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New Kalabsha, Egypt: Ba Spirit Relief, Temple of Kalabsha
Country: Egypt
Location: New Kalabsha
Region: South of Aswan, on artificial island in Lake Nasser (Nubia)
Area: Temple of Kalabsha
Material: Limestone
Description: Ba Spirit relief on the façade of the Temple of Kalabsha, which was dedicated to the sun god Mandulis. Temple relocated to the Island of New Kalabsha in the 1970s in anticipation of the flooding from the High Aswan Dam.
Category: Reliefs
Period: Roman
Date: 27 BCE – 330 CE
Credit: Solange Ashby, January 2011
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