“ Kom Ombo is a magnificent torso. It was a large once as Dendera - perhaps larger; for, being on the same grand scale, it was a double Temple and dedicated to two Gods, Horus and Sevek; the Hawk and the Crocodile. Now there remain only a few giant columns buried to within eight or ten feet of their gorgous capitals; a superb fragment of architrave; one broken wave of sculptured cornice, and some fallen blocks graven with the names of Ptolomies and Cleopatras.”

Amelia B..Edwards, A Thousand Miles up the Nile, 1877