Sunday, May 8, 2011

Around the Campfire Comment of the Day.

As you may know, I run another blog called Around the Campfire.  It has been around a while, so it regularly gets comment spam. This was comment was made on a post about Roman slavery.

Here is another piece of info about Ptolemy XIII has to do with The Temple of Kom-Ombo:

Located in the town of Kom-Ombo, about 28 miles north of Aswan, the Temple, dating to the Ptolemies, is built on a high dune overlooking the Nile. The actual temple was started by Ptolemy VI Philometor in the early second century BC. Ptolemy XIII built the outer and inner hypostyle halls. The outer enclosure wall and part of the court were built by Augustus sometime after 30 BC, and are mostly gone. There are also tombs from the Old Kingdom in the vicinity of Kom-Ombo village.

(Naturally, it was advertising tourism to Kom-Ombo...) How a story about Roman slavery has anything to do with Egypt is anyone's guess.

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