Egypt (Edfu)

The Temple of Edfu (The Pronaos and Hypostyle Hall)

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Construction began on August 23, 237 BCE (under Ptolemy III Euergetes I) and was completed in 57 BCE (under Ptolemy XII Auletes). Period: Ptolemaic Period (Hellenistic Egypt, spanning 305–30 BCE).

This object represents a monumental architectural fragment of the temple's facade, hypostyle hall (pronaos), and composite floral column capitals half-buried in desert sand (as famously documented in 19th-century explorations). It is carved from local Egyptian sandstone, utilizing precision stone-masonry, low-relief sculpture, sunken relief (cavo-rilievo), and fine chisel work.