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10095.g.34(33)

Record Id:

040-003235364

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003235331

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100026869721.0x0006fb

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SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

10095.g.34(33)

Title:

The temple of Karnac — Thebes. View from the top of the hall. Photographer: Frith, Francis

Scope & Content:

Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative.

Genre: Archaeological Photography

'This view is taken from the roof of the lower part of the [Hypostyle] Hall, looking eastward. Enormous blocks, covered with speaking decoration, hurled down chiefly by human violence, encumber the foreground. Farther in are two columns, which support the piers—between which we have a back view of the same window tracery we saw in the last picture. Over the next opening are the holes for the beams of the roof of a chamber, which probably some hermit like Stylites occupied till the Mohammedan invasion or the corroding nitre warned him to quit. Through this opening, and the one to the left, are seen the capitals of the columns of the centre avenue; farther on, the solitary and dangerous pier of a fifth window: then the smaller and larger obelisk; beyond this the top of the gate, so conspicuous in two former views; and lastly, the date groves, and mountains of the eastern desert..'

Stereoscopic pair.

Collection Area:

Printed Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003235331
040-003235364

Is part of:

10095.g.34 : Egypt, Nubia, and Ethiopia. Illustrated by one hundred stereoscopic photographs, taken by Francis Frith for Messrs. Negretti and…

10095.g.34(33) : The temple of Karnac — Thebes. View from the top of the hall. Photographer: Frith, Francis

Hierarchy:

032-003235331[0033]/040-003235364

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Not applicable

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Not applicable

Techniques:

Albumen Print
Photograph
Photographic Print
Silver Printing-Out Paper Print

Start Date:

1859

End Date:

1860

Date Range:

1859-1860

Era:

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