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OMBOS (Kom-Ombo) Egypt.

A city on the E bank of the Nile, 168 km S of Thebes. It reached its glory during the Ptolemaic period and became the capital of the Ombite nome, which extended S to Elephantine. Its Graeco-Roman temple is unusual in that it is a double building dedicated to the cults of two gods, Sobek the crocodile god and Haroeris with the falcon's head.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

A. Weigall, A guide to the Antiquities of Upper Egypt (1913) 374-90. Plan of the temple on p. 381; Porter & Moss, Top. Bibl., VI. Upper Egypt: Chief Temples (1939) 178-203^P; E. Brunner-Traut & V. Hell, Aegypten (1966) 634-37^P.

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The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites. Stillwell, Richard. MacDonald, William L. McAlister, Marian Holland. Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press. 1976.

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