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The doorway has decoration on both sides of the doorway and above it on the lintel. The sides are
both decorated with a snake circling its tail around a staff-shaped object with a flower on top. They
both wear a headdress. The body of the snakes is thicker just below the neck and quickly becomes
thinner going down. The headdresses of the snakes differ from each other. The lintel also shows a
depiction of the winged sun disc.
The snakes can be interpreted as cobra’s curled around a staff with a flower on top, which
resembles a lotus flower. The headdress of the left cobra can be interpreted as the white crown of
Upper Egypt, although the extra decorations on the sides look like the ostrich feathers usually
found on the Atef crown. The headdress of the snake on the right can be interpreted as the red
crown of Lower Egypt.
Aldred interprets the decoration on the jambs of the doorway on the exterior south wall leading
into the pronaos as the goddesses of Upper and Lower Egypt, depicted as cobras. He interprets
their headdresses as the Red and White crowns and describes the goddesses as twining around
the “heraldic plants of Egypt”. According to Aldred the lintel carries the winged sun disc and above
it the emblem of the newborn sun is shown. It is represented as a winged scarab rolling the disk of
the sun between its forelegs. Ra, who was the sun-god and creator of the world and all living
things, was represented in the form of a scarab beetle or newborn child at dawn to represent
rejuvenation. This was related to his journey through the afterlife, which started at dusk, and his
journey through the day which started at dawn (Aldred 1978, 53; Taylor 2010, 19).
The north wall of the temple is also decorated with reliefs. At some point a doorway was added to
the temple as a modification. The reliefs on the north wall were cut when this doorway was added.
Aldred mentions the temple had originally been brightly painted. Aldred is also certain that
wooden doors, which may have been covered in part with gold leaf, closed off the entrances. The
reason none of this is left is mostly related to the fact that the temple was submerged in the lake
formed by the heightening of the Aswan dam in 1933. The paint could also have been lost due to
everyday erosion processes (Aldred 1978, 52-57).