Calendar relief, Temple of Sobek and Haroeris
Calendar, based on 12 lunar months, 3 seasons of 4 months each, with New Year coinciding with the annual Nile flood, bas-relief, in the Temple of Sobek and Haroeris, at Kom Ombo, Aswan Governate, Egypt. Kom Ombo is a double temple to both Sobek, crocodile god of fertility, and Haroeris, Horus the Elder, built 180-47 BC during the Ptolemaic dynasty, and altered in Roman times. Picture by Manuel Cohen
Picture No
14073428
Media ID
45690983
Size
5357px x 8268px
(26.0MB)
Credit
Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Photograph by Manuel Cohen
Date
2009
