GERF HUSSEIN

Former location of a sandstone temple in Nubia built by the viceroy of Kush, Setau, in honor of Ptahand the deified Ramesses II. The inscriptions on the temple were copied and certain parts cut out before the site was flooded by Lake Nasser, the lake caused by the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s.

See also Abu Simbel; Amada; Beit el-Wali; Kalabsha; Soleb.