Istabl Antar (Wadi of the Speos Artemidos)
The Speos Artemidos (Grotto of Artemis) is an archaeological site in Egypt. It is located about 2 km south of the Middle Kingdom tombs at Beni Hasan, and about 28 km south of Al Minya. Today, the site is a small village known as Istabl Antar.
There are two temples here, both of which are dedicated to Pakhet. (In Egyptian mythology, Pakhet, meaning she who scratches is a lioness goddess of war). They are cut out of the rock into the cliffs on the eastern side of the Nile. One of the temples, built by Queen Hatshepsut, has an architrave bearing a long dedicatory text with her famous denunciation of the Hyksos .
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