The Temple of Dendur, ca. 15 B.C.E.

 

Roman period Egyptian; Nubia, Dendur

 

Given to the United States by Egypt in 1965

 
     
awarded to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1967

 

installed in The Sackler Wing in 1978 (68.154)

 

made of sandstone

 

Thoth, god of communication