Genre: Archaeological Photography View looking down onto the west colonnade of the Temple of Isis, with boulder-strewn hillside of the island of Biga beyond. This is technically one of the more successful exposures made by Douglas, and the accompanying letterpress gives some description of the ...
Philae. (From the south.) Photographer: Douglas, James
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Genre: Archaeological Photography View across the Nile, looking due north towards the entrance pylon of the Temple of Isis, with the Kiosk of Trajan on the right and the quayside wall at the south-west tip of the island on the left.
Genre: Archaeological Photography View of the standing columns of the temple at Qertassi, on the west bank of the Nile, about 15 miles south of Philae, with the river in the background: 'It is placed on the very brink of a steep hill, and from the beauty of its situation excites expectation, wh...
Gertassee. (Quarries.) Photographer: Douglas, James
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Genre: Archaeological Photography View of quarried rock face at Qertassi, with a carved doorway and niches at the lowest level: 'An extensive sandstone quarry in Nubia, and which seemed to have been worked principally during the Greek period...There are no hieroglyphics near or in the quarry; t...
Genre: Archaeological Photography View of a collection of miscellaneous ruined structures at Tafa (ancient Taphis), a few miles south of Gertasi: 'This plain is strewn with remains of a late date and to which it is difficult to assign any use. They are stone enclosures, entered by a gateway and...
Genre: Archaeological Photography View looking down onto temple buildings on the hillside at Kalabsha (ancient Talmis), with the Nile and the eastern bank beyond: 'Kalabshe is a temple, or rather an assemblage of temples on the left bank of the Nile, about 20 miles above the first cataract. The...
Genre: Archaeological Photography View from below, looking up towards the temple at Dendur, described in the accompanying letterpress as 'of a peculiar plan, but otherwise uninteresting;' now removed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Genre: Archaeological Photography General view of the Temple of Thoth at el-Dakka (ancient Pcelcis), with the main body of the sanctuary in the foreground and the pylon beyond to the right. Between 1962 and 1968 the temple was moved upstream to a site at el-Sebua.
Genre: Archaeological Photography View looking towards the ruins of the temple at Miharrakah, with columns standing among piles of masonry, 'one of the most picturesque remains in Nubia, though never finished … There are no sculptures or paintings, a very rude representation of Isis, sitting un...