The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07.
Dendara
or Dendera (both: dn´drä) (KEY) , town, N Egypt, on the Nile River. Nearby is the site of the ancient Greek city of Tentyra. There is a large, well-preserved temple of Hathor (1st cent. B.C.), which contained a zodiacal table now in the Louvre museum in Paris, and a temple of Isis, which contains cultist inscriptions.