Esna - Temple of Khnum

In the center of Esna, freed from the rubble of later centuries and now 30ft/9m below the present street level, is the Temple of Khnum, the ram headed local god, and his associate goddesses Neith (equated by the Greeks with Athena) and Satet. Also associated with Khnum were the lion headed goddess Menheyet and Nebtu, who corresponded to Isis. The temple was begun in the Ptolemaic period and extended and decorated with reliefs and inscriptions by various Roman Emperors.