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Temple of Cleopatra at Ermont (Roberts 1838)
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Temple of Cleopatra at Ermont, in background (Roberts 1838-40).
Located 20 km south of Thebes, Ermont (Greek Hermonthis) held a temple to Montu, a bull-like war diety. First built in the 11th Dynasty during the Middle Kingdom, the temple was expanded in the 12th Dynasty, and later rebuilt in the New Kingdom by Thutmose III.
During the Ptolemaic period, in 45-31, Cleopatra VII erected in Ermont a monument to her son Caesarion, now called the Temple of Cleopatra.
Robert's view from 1838 shows the temple much as it was later photographed, first in 1849 by du Camp and then in 1857 by Frith. Later in the 19th century, the temple was demolished.
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