left side as one enters the temple. Italian Egyptologist Girolamo Segato also left a graffiti inscription. Some damage was caused in the sixth century when the temple was used as a church in the sixth century. Presbyter Abraham documented the consecration of the building into a Christian church by carving into the walls. The Christians cut a doorway into the north wall in the pronaos, damaging the relief carving of Isis. However, they restored her lost arm by changing its angle at the elbow. They also installed a cross on the temple's roof and covered the reliefs with plaster. When Nubia became Muslim in the 13th century, the Christian Church was deserted. Many parts of the deserted structure disappeared or were damaged when the local people took stone and bricks for repurposing. By the modern era, the mud-brick walls that surrounded the entire temple complex had vanished. Archaeologists learned there were entry gates on the north and south walls because remnants matched the surviving pylon, which was to the east of the temple. In 1933, Aswan Low Dam was increased in height. As a result, the temple complex was underwater for nine months each year for the next thirty years. During this time, all traces of paint that remained on the temple's carvings were washed away. When the temple was relocated, the tomb in the rockface behind it was left in place and covered by rising water. Relocations of other temples UNESCO assisted in relocating and donating three other temples: Temple of Kalabsha to the Ägyptisches Museum in Berlin, Germany Temple of Taffeh to Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden, Netherlands Temple of Ellesyia to the Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy Temple of Debod to Madrid, Spain References External links Digitized material related to the Temple of Dendur in the Digital Collections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries 1st-century BC religious buildings and structures Architecture in collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1st-century BC establishments in Roman Egypt Egyptian temples History of Nubia Relocated buildings and structures in New York City International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia