City of Deir El-Medina is home to a Ptolemaic temple, the Temple of Deir El-Medina.
As a labor camp, Deir El-Medina is a settlement on Luxor’s west bank where the workers who built some of Thebes’ most impressive temples lived.
There is a small yet beautiful Ptolemaic temple in the Deir Al-Medina Complex.
In the third century BC, Ptolemy IV (Philopator) and a number of his predecessors built and decorated a number of temple complexes devoted to the goddess Hathor, on top of the foundations of which this new complex was built. To this day, the meticulous preservation measures have maintained an exceptional state of preservation.
Because the temple was built largely for the workers, it contains various features that are unique to their needs, making it one of the few mud-brick temples to remain intact to this day.
While the patterns and hieroglyphs have faded somewhat over time, they maintain a great deal of their original vibrancy.
Keep an eye out for the sun-worshipping Khepri baboons and the judgment scenario, which is usually reserved only for tomb artwork.
Deir Al-Medina, or “Monastery of the Town,” is the name given to the complex by Copts who transformed it into a monastery and gave it its current name.
