
ルクソール
デンデラとアビドス神殿 日帰りツアー(ルクソール発)
彩色された天井まで残る、エジプトで最も保存状態のよい2つの神殿。多くの旅行者が見落とす一日。

ルクソールの北、ナイル沿いの道にある、エジプトで最も保存状態のよい2つの神殿。
デンデラ(ルクソールの北60km)は屋根が残るプトレマイオス・ローマ時代のハトホル神殿で、洗浄された彩色天井、黄道十二宮、クレオパトラのレリーフがあります。アビドス(160km)はエジプト随一のレリーフとアビドス王名表があるセティ1世神殿です。2つを合わせるとルクソール発9時間の一日、デンデラだけなら半日です。
Abydos was the burial place of the first kings and the pilgrimage centre of Osiris for three thousand years. The temple Seti I built there has an L-shaped plan with seven sanctuaries for seven gods and reliefs carved in raised relief so fine they look modelled in wax. In a corridor at the back, the King List names every legitimate king before Seti and omits Hatshepsut, Akhenaten and Tutankhamun. Behind it lies the Osireion, a granite hall built as the tomb of Osiris.
Dendera is thirteen centuries younger and complete: the hypostyle hall with 24 Hathor-headed columns and a ceiling that shows the sky goddess Nut swallowing the sun each evening, the sanctuary, the crypts with the "Dendera light" relief, the staircases up to the roof chapels for the New Year, and, on the rear wall, Cleopatra VII and her son Caesarion making offerings.
The road between them runs along the Nile through the villages of the Qena governorate, and the day is as much about that as the temples.
ベストシーズン: 10月〜4月。