Dandarah

Dendera also spelled Dandarah, historic Iunet, Tentyris or Tentyra is a small city and former bishopric in Egypt located on the west bank of the Nile, about 5 kilometres south of Qena, on the other aspect of the river. It is placed approximately 60 kilometres north of Luxor and stays a Latin Catholic titular see. It includes the Dendera Temple complex, one of the satisfactory-preserved temple sites from historic Upper Egypt. At a substitute remoted vicinity at the edge of the desert, approximately 2.5 kilometres south-west of the present day metropolis, lies what Dendera is well-known for, a in general Greco-Roman temple complex acknowledged in historical Egyptian as Iunet or Tantere.

In the Greek technology, the metropolis was called Tentyra. It turned into once the modest - capital of the 6^th Nome of Upper Egypt, and turned into additionally known as Nikentori or Nitentori, because of this 'willow wooden' or 'willow earth'. Some scholars accept as true with the call derives from the sky and fertility goddess Hathor, additionally associated with the Greek Aphrodite, who turned into specially worshiped there. The legit deity of the metropolis become a crocodile. Crocodiles had been also honored as deities in different Egyptian cities, which gave upward push to many quarrels, notably with Ombos.