Deir el-Shelwit

[3] On the southern side of the outer wall some stone blocks from earlier buildings had been reused, judging from the reliefs on them most of them appear to be from Medinet Habu.

[2] According to one theory the temple's construction started under the reign of Nectanebo II and reached its finished form during the Greek-Roman era.

[1] Between 1971 and 1979 archaeologists from the Waseda University of Japan worked on the site, they cleared the enclosure wall and the enclosed precinct from debris and excavated the temple's well which was filled with pottery shreds.

Thirty-two strata of fillings were detected in the well, up to the point of 4 meters under ground level, where water made further excavation impossible.

On the walls of the temple and the pylon the cartouches of Hadrianus, Antoninus Pius, Galba, Otho, Vespasianus and Julius Caesar can be seen.