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Dendera ((アラビア語:دندرة) ''Dandarah''; also spelled ''Denderah'', ancient Iunet,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Iunet (Dendera) )〕 Tentyris〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Linguistic Bibliography )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Félix Teynard - Dendérah (Tentyris), Temple d'Athôr - Face Postérieure - Cléopatre et Cæsarion - The Metropolitan Museum of Art )〕 or Tentyra)〔In old sources such as Belzoni.〕 is a small town in Egypt situated on the west bank of the Nile, about south of Qena, on the opposite side of the river. It is located approximately north of Luxor. == History == At a rather isolated place at the edge of the desert, about south-west of the modern town, lies what Dendera is famous for, a mostly Greco-Roman temple complex known in ancient Egyptian as ''Iunet'' or ''Tantere''. The modern Arab town is built on the ancient site of ''Ta-ynt-netert'', which means 'She of the Divine Pillar.' In the Greek era, the town was known as ''Tentyra''. It was once the -modest- capital of the 6th Nome (Pharaonic province) of Upper Egypt, and was also called Nikentori or Nitentori, which means 'willow wood' or 'willow earth'. Some scholars believe the name derives from the sky and fertility goddess Hathor, also associated with the Greek Aphrodite, who was especially worshiped there. The official deity of the city was a crocodile. Crocodiles were also venerated as deities in other Egyptian cities, which gave rise to many quarrels, notably with Ombos. After Egypt became a Roman possession, the city of Tentyris was part of the late Roman province of Thebais Secunda. Its bishopric was a suffragan of Ptolemais Hermiou, the capital and metropolitan see of the province. Little is known of the history of Christianity in the place, as only the names of two ancient bishops are given: Pachymius (Pachomius), a companion of Melece at the beginning of the fourth century, and Serapion or Aprion, a contemporary and friend of the monk St. Pachomius, whose diocese boasted the celebrated convent of Tabennisi. The town was given its present Arabic name of Denderah during the late Ottoman Empire and ruled 6000 inhabitants in Qena (Qeneh) district. Under the name Tentyris, the episcopal see was nominally revived as a titular bishopric repeatedly since 1902, but is vacant since 1972. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dendera」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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