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Deir el-Medina: plan of Temples of Het-hert and Ma'at    .


Plan of the temples of Het-hert and Ma'at at Der el-Medina .


The Temple of Het-Hert lay within the area of the walled Ptolemaic enclosure in the center of the image, while the Temple of Ma'at was just outside the wall to the right. Het-Hert and Ma'at were deities worshipped in the necropolis at Deir el Medina.

The late (Ptolemaic) temple now in the enclosure dates from 220-145 BC, during the the reigns of Ptolemy IV Philopator, Ptolemy Philometor, and Ptolemy Neos Dionysos. The temple compound was later converted into a Coptic monastery, the source of the name Deir el-Medina ("Convent of the Town"). 
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