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Ras el Soda Temple

Ras el Soda Temple is one of the finest temples in Egypt, it consists of a wide staircase, 5 columns but there is one column lies at Greco roman museum, and much of cella walls were will standing, It was situated in Ras El Soda area on the agricultural road leading to El Montazah and Abu Qear and near the eastern company of Linen. In the early 19th and 20th centuries, this temple was transported to Bab Sharq, The process of rebuilding the Temple took six months, but the remaining part now isn’t a temple but a small structure.

Ras el Soda Temple consists of 2 floors, and 4 columns, first column dedicated to Hermanubis who is depicted as a young man wearing a Greek tunic with a torch in his hand, and next to his feet there is a seated figure of Jackal, second one dedicated to god Harpo-cratis who is depicted as a naked child with his thumb in his mouth, he is also shown with a side lock of hair, third one dedicated to goddess Isis who is depicted in the Greek form as a standing figure of a woman wearing a tunic with a knot on her dress, she is also crowned with two horns and a sun disk, and she holds the situla (jar for sacred water), last column or god Osiris in canopic form, he is represented as a jar and its lid takes the shape of the head of god Osiris.

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