Sanatoria

Plan of the Sanatoria at Dendera
Source for the map: Nunn (J. F.), Ancient
Egyptian Medicine, University of Oklahoma
Press, 1996, P.111.

Sanatoria was essentially the very ancient close of a medical (or magical) clinic (with hospital properties), where the sick or injured could come to seek therapeutic from the gods and maybe, the wisdom of the priests and scholars of the temple. Regrettably, few much structures remain, though there are ruins at various temples that are thought to perchance be sanatorias (accepting one at Hatshepsut's temple on the West Bank at Thebes (contemporary Luxor). Nevertheless, in the Graeco-Roman Period temple at Dendera dedicated to Hathor we do find a clear instance of this structure. In fact, that sanatoria was plausibly very great and it broken a reputation for healing, getting people from great aloofnesses due to Hathor's report as a goddess of pity.

The sanatoria at Dendera consisted of many chambers where the sick rested while they expected the dreams that might bring divine prescriptions for their recovery. Within this sanatoria was a central courtyard where temple priests would pour water finished statues that had been sliced with magical texts, allowing the magic to pass into the water. This was then given to the unstable for drinking or bathing.

It is entirely potential that the Sanatoria may have been part linked with the "house of life", for there we get the study of music in ancient Egypt.

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