Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Archivision Base to Module 13
Preferred Title:
Kiosk of Qertassi
Alternate Title:
Kiosk of Kertassi
Image View:
A Hathor style sistrum capital
Creator:
unknown (Egyptian (ancient))
Location:
site: New Kalabsha Reconstruction (Aswan, Upper Egypt, Egypt)
Date:
ca. 332 BCE-395 CE (creation)
Cultural Context:
Egyptian (ancient)
Style Period:
Greco-Roman; Ptolemaic
Work Type 1:
chapel (room or structure)
Work Type 2:
excavation (site)
Classification:
architecture
Material:
stone; limestone
Technique:
carving (processes); construction (assembling)
Relation Work:
part of Kalabsha [reconstructed site]
Subjects:
architectural exteriors; deities; Hathor (Egyptian deity); capital
Description:
Originally built 30 km south of Aswan, relocated to New Kalabsha ca. 1970. "The kiosk, or peripteral chapel, appeared in Egypt at the beginning of the 12th Dynasty (ca. 1938-ca. 1756 BCE) as a derivative of the peripteral temple. The best-known examples, in the Greco-Roman period (332 BCE-395 CE) temples at Edfu and Dendara, are small, square shrines enclosed by pillars with elaborate capitals joined by screen walls." (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart. com/)
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module One
Identifier:
1A3-EG-K-3-B4
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Kiosk of Qertassi