Hill of Ombos Kom Ombo

On the terrace in front of the temple is a small, badly ruined birth house (mammisi), built or restored by Euergetes II, the facade of which faced southeast. Of the surviving reliefs one, on the west side, is worth notice: it shows Euergetes and two gods sailing in a boat through a papyrus swamp swarming with birds, with an ithyphallic Min-Amun-Re standing on the left. On the south side is an underground staircase leading down to the river, on the banks of which are the remains of a Nilometer similar to the one at Edfu.

In the open space east of the birth house and north of the temple are two large and handsome blocks from an architrave, one of them bearing the name of Neos Dionysos; the remains of several small structures, including a Roman doorway and a ruined chapel standing on a platform; two wells, one large and one small, with a water channel leading to a small pool in which young sacred crocodiles may have been kept; a small chapel dedicated to Suchos by Caracalla; a Coptic church, with only one column still standing; and a large Coptic house.

To the south of the temple court is a small chapel dedicated to Hathor, of red sandstone, built in the time of Domitian (unfinished). In one room of this are the mummies of sacred crocodiles found in the vicinity.