Kom Ombo - Birth House

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,