The great sloped glass wall on the park, the pool standing in for the Nile, the sandstone gate and temple on their platform, the works along the granite walls of the wing.
The Temple of Dendur was built in Nubia around 15 BC under the Roman emperor Augustus and dedicated to Isis and two deified local brothers. Egypt gave it to the United States in 1965 in thanks for help saving monuments from the waters of the Aswan High Dam. The Met's Sackler Wing, designed by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates, opened around it in 1978.
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The Sackler wing with its tilted wall of glass and the park beyond, the reflecting pool with its edge of black granite, the temple and its pylon gateway raised on a stone platform, the sloped granite walls of the hall, the sunlight sliding across the floor. Mood: snow light through glass. Everything is procedural geometry with painted surfaces; nothing is a scan or a photograph. The room is an interpretation, and it hangs the New Yorkers the census recorded at this place first.