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It is located at the town of Kom Ombo, approximately 40 Km north from Aswan. It was built by some of the kings of the Ptolemaic period like Domitian, Tiberius, Ptolemy XII. The temple of Kom Ombo was built on the honor of two deities the crocodile-headed Sobek, god of fertility and creator of the world, and Haroeris or the ancient falcon-headed Horus. It can be said that the main purpose of establishing the Ptolemaic temples is to legitimize the loyalty of the foreign king in Egypt. This legitimacy came from the relives on the walls while performing the processions to the gods and be worshiped side by side with them.
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