Kiosk of Kertassi

The kiosk of Kertassi was built in the greek-roman period. Originally it was lying some 40 km south of the new dam on a rock plateau and was saved in 1963 by the Egyptian Department of Antiquity and brought on the island of New Kalabsha, nearby Aswan. In antiquity, in the kiosk figures of gods were stored, when they travelled through Nubia. There are columns with plants and Hathor heads. Hathor was the goddess of the sandstone diggers and also the goddes of the local people here. The kiosk was standing at the beginning of a way leading to a sandstone quarry. It resembles the kiosk of Trajan on Philae Island. Unfortunately the walls between the columns were not preserved, except for one piece which shows a relief with a Ptolemy King standing on front of Isis and Horus. The entrance lies between the two Hathor columns which can be cleary seen on the right picture below.