Aswan - Temple of Satet

A few paces west of the Nilometer, surrounded by brick walls, are the substructures of a small Temple of Satet, built over an earlier temple and incorporating a variety of architectural fragments (column drums, blocks bearing the name of Tuthmosis III, Ramesses III, etc.). The inscriptions on the solitary stump of column still standing refer to Trajan as the builder, but there was a temple on this site as early as c. 2900 B.C. The temple is being reconstructed, with financial assistance from German industrial firms, to show its successive phases.