After crossing the High Dam a short boat ride took us to the Temple of Philae.
The boat dropped us at the southern end of Angelika near the oldest building on the island, the Kiosk of Nectanebo II (Above Left and Right; Below Left).
Built in the late Ptolemaic and early Roman periods the huge temple combines ancient Egyptian and Greco-Roman architecture. Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysus built the first pylon, which has scenes of him massacring his enemies, watched by Isis, Horus and Hathor. (Below). The birth house built by Ptolemy VI and altered by later rulers, is decimated to Isis's son Horus. To the west of the temple lied the Gate of Hadrian, which was inscribed on 24 August 394 AD with Egypt's last hieroglyphics.
On the eastern side of the island, the small Temple of Hathor contains reliefs of musicians, among the m Des, the god of singing,. Further south, close to the edge of the water is the classically graceful, 14-columned Kiosk of Trajan (Above, Right, Below), which has scenes of the Roman emperor burning incense in front of Osiris and Isis.
