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Trajan's Kiosk

Trajan's Kiosk, also known as Pharaoh's Bed by the locals, is a hypaethral temple currently located on Agilkia Island in southern Egypt. The unfinished monument is attributed to Trajan, Roman emperor from 98 to 117 AD, due to his depiction as pharaoh seen on some of the interior reliefs. However, the majority of the structure dates to an earlier time, possibly to the reign of Augustus. The temple was originally built on the island of Philae, near the lower Aswan Dam, and served as main entrance to the Philae Island Temple Complex from the Nile river. It was relocated to Agilika Island in the 1960s as part of the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia to save it from the rising waters of the Nile that followed the construction of the Aswan High Dam.

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File:David Roberts Hypaethral Temple Philae.jpg|The Hypaethral Temple of Philae by David Roberts, 1838, in The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia File:Kiosk of Trajan 1839.jpg|Kiosk in December, 1839, Pierre-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière File:John Beasly Greene (American, born France - The Kiosk of Trajan, Philae - Google Art Project.jpg|Kiosk in 1854 by John Beasley Greene File:Hypaethral Temple Philae.jpg|The Hypaethral Temple, Philae, by Francis Frith, 1857; from the collection of the National Galleries of Scotland ==References==
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