Location: 24 º 27 'N 32 º 57' E
Egyptian name: Nubt or Nubet. Greek name: Ombos. Arabic name: Kom Ombo
(Not to be confused with the city north of Naqada the same name: Ombos)
Originally, it was a settlement called Nubt, Egyptian nbt, which means "City of Gold." For location, enjoyed the s control over trade routes from Nubia were heading through the Nile Valley, but its importance grew with the construction of the temple in the second century BC
In Greek times, the city was in the Thebaid, and was the capital of the prefecture Ombita (the prefecture I of Upper Egypt), on the east bank of the Nile Ombos was a military fortress in all the Egyptian dynasties, with the Pharaohs to the Ptolemies and Romans, and enjoyed great fame by the grandeur of their temples and traditional enmity with the people of Tentyris (Dendera).
Temples
Remaining two temples, built with stone obtained from quarries nearby. The most notorious of the two is located on a sandy hill and seems to have been a sort of Pantheon because, according to the inscriptions known, had been dedicated to Haroeris (Apollo) and other deities of the nome Ombita by soldiers quartered there.
The smaller temple in the northwest, was dedicated to Isis. Both have an impressive architecture and still retain the brilliant colors that adorn the builders. Dating from the Ptolemaic era, with the exception of an entry of limestone, built in an adobe wall. Was part of a temple built by Tuthmosis III in honor of the god, embodied in crocodile, Sobek.
The temple of Kom Ombo, also known as temple of Sobek and Haroeris is in ruins, but it is impressive, especially for its location, which makes it stand out next to the Nile was excavated by Jacques de Morgan around 1893. It is an unusual building, completely symmetrical, with two entrances, two halls and two sanctuaries hypostyle. This is because it is dedicated to two gods: the left side of the falcon god Haroeris (Horus the old or large) and the right to Sobek, local deity with the head of a crocodile.د
I began to build Ptolemy VI in the second century BC, and Kom Ombo capital of a nome of Upper Egypt, Ptolemy XII and completed in the first century BC The Roman emperor Augustus added the pylon of the entrance to 30 BC In the room there was a small shrine at the time of Tuthmosis II was found remains dating from the XVIII Dynasty (1550 to 1063 BC)
