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Temple of Debod
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| The Debod temple is an Egyptian temple localized at present in Madrid (Spain). It is positioned eastwards of the plaza of Spain, near the tour of the painter Rosales ( park of the west ), in a high in which positioned to him the quarters of the mountain ( producing a bloody episode of the civil war it hispanizes ). to be moved to Spain, positioned so that had the same orientation that in your place of source, of this to west.The Debod temple went a gift of Egypt to Spain (year 1968), in compensation for the help hispanizes, after the international call made by the UNESCO for the saving of the temples of Nubia ( Abu Simbel among them ), in hazard of disappearance due to the construction of the Asuán capture. Egypt donated four of the temples saved to different collaborating nations: Dendur to the United Stated( it finds at present in the metropolitan museum of New York ), Ellesiya to Italy, Taffa to holland and Debod to Spain.You are calculated an age of a few 2200 years. It was built for the Adijalamani |nubio| king of Meroe towards the 200.180 AdC and dedicated to the cult of the Egyptian gods amón and Isis possesses additions of the |ptolemaica| time and it roman, imperial ( I adC and II century d.c). photograph: Osvaldo Gago http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Templo_de_Debod |
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