The structure "is only twenty-five feet square, and consists of a single Hathor court oriented north or south, and originally surrounded by fourteen columns connected by screen walls."<ref>Margaret A. Murray, Egyptian Temples, Dover Publications, 2002. p.192</ref> Of the 14 pillars, only 6 have survived in place.<ref>Murray, pp.192-193</ref> The pillars or columns were made of brown sandstone; the structure itself was "perhaps connected to a small [[Egyptian temple|temple]] on the East Bank [of the Nile] which was still in existence in 1813."<ref>Dieter Arnold, Nigel Strudwick, Sabine Gardiner, The Encyclopaedia of Ancient Egyptian Architecture, I.B. Tauris Publishers, 2003. p.192</ref>
This charming kiosk has now been moved to the site of [[New Kalabsha]] in Southern Egypt but "once stood to the entrance to the sandstone quarries" of Qertassi.<ref>Lorna Oakes, Pyramids, Temples and Tombs of Ancient Egypt: An Illustrated Atlas of the Land of the Pharaohs, Hermes House:Anness Publishing Ltd, 2003. p.209</ref> Its capitals "are decorated with [[Hathor]] heads, in honour of the goddess who was [the] patron of quarry-men and miners.<ref>Oakes, p.209</ref> Since Hathor was often associated with [[Isis]], as she is at [[Philae]], it has been suggested that "this kiosk and the small temples of [[Temple of Debod|Dabod]] and [[Temple of Dendur|Dendur]] were way stations on the processional route taken by priests bearing the image of Isis around [[Lower Nubia]], which was held to be her estate."<ref>Oakes, p.209</ref> Due to the paucity of timber in the arid region of Nubia, the kiosk's roof was constructed with sandstone slabs that were supported by architraves on its long sides.<ref>Dieter Arnold, Temples of the Last Pharaohs, Oxford University Press, 1999. p.240</ref>
