During the reign of Cleopatra,[3] a temple[4] to Isis [5] was built opposite Latopolis, or Esne as it is now known,[6] on the other side of the Nile from this settlement. The Roman people having constructed this, named the building Contra Latopolis. Very little has survived into the current age of this construction, all but a "massive portico upheld by two rows of four columns each"