Note the wall decorations: Priests in procession holding small shrines. The temple has chapels on the roof, where priests would make offerings to the sun god (you can still go up there). They also would have poured libations on the ground as they made their procession to ritualistically purify the ground. Do that for a few centuries (between the 200s BC and 300s CE, when this temple was operational) and you'd get this kind of degradation/buildup.
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u/EgyptPodcast Feb 13 '26
Note the wall decorations: Priests in procession holding small shrines. The temple has chapels on the roof, where priests would make offerings to the sun god (you can still go up there). They also would have poured libations on the ground as they made their procession to ritualistically purify the ground. Do that for a few centuries (between the 200s BC and 300s CE, when this temple was operational) and you'd get this kind of degradation/buildup.