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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 933 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDFU , in Coptic Atbo, a See also:

town of Upper See also:Egypt, 484 M. S.S.E. of See also:Cairo by See also:rail, on the W. See also:bank of the See also:Nile, the railway station being on the opposite See also:side of the See also:river. Pop. (1907) 19,262. The inhabitants manufacture earthenware, which finds ready See also:sale all through Egypt. The See also:ancient Atbo (Apoilinopolis Magna) was See also:capital of the second See also:nome of Upper Egypt. The See also:great See also:sandstone See also:temple is practically See also:complete (see See also:ARCHITECTURE: Egypt). It was built on the site of an earlier structure entirely in the See also:time of the See also:Ptolemies. The central See also:part of the See also:building, begun by See also:Ptolemy III. Euergetes in 237 B.C., was finished by his successor in 212; the See also:portico, See also:court, pylons and surrounding See also:wall were added by Ptolemy Euergetes II., See also:Soter. II. and See also:Alexander I.; but the decoration was not finished till 57 B.C. in the reign of Ptolemy XIII. Neos See also:Dionysus.

The See also:

god of Atbo was a See also:form of Horns (See also:Apollo) as the See also:sun-god; his most characteristic See also:representation is as the disk of the sun with outspread wings, so often seen over the doors of shrines, at the See also:top of stelae, &c. In the temple, where he is often figured as a See also:falcon-headed See also:man, he is associated with See also:Hathor of See also:Dendera and the See also:child Harsemteus. See See also:Baedeker's Egypt ; Ed. Naville, Textes relatifs au mythe d'See also:Horus recueillis dans le temple d'Edfou. (F. LL. G.).

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