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Wf1/4622(3)
- Record Id:
- 040-003302653
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003302650
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028276000.0x001560
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Wf1/4622(3)
- Title:
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View in the quarries at Hager Silsilis. Photographer: Frith, Francis
- Scope & Content:
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith E. No. 38 1857' in the negative (date partially cropped).
Genre: Archaeological Photography
View looking along the rock face in the quarries at Gebel el-Silsila, with the entrance to a rock-cut temple and a large inscribed tablet carved in a massive boulder in the foreground. The Nile can be seen in the background.
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003302650
040-003302653 - Is part of:
- Wf1/4622 : Upper Egypt and Ethiopia. By F. Frith. Photographer(s): Frith, Francis
Wf1/4622(3) : View in the quarries at Hager Silsilis. Photographer: Frith, Francis - Hierarchy:
- 032-003302650[0003]/040-003302653
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Wf1/4622
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Techniques:
- Albumen Print
Photograph
Photographic Print
Silver Printing-Out Paper Print - Start Date:
- 1857
- End Date:
- 1857
- Date Range:
- 1857
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 221 mm x 153 mm
Format: Printed Book
Secondary Support: Card
- Former External References:
- E.38
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Frith, Francis, 1822-1898
- Subjects:
- Architectural Types
Architecture
Cave Temples
Civil engineering
Engineering
Excavation
Inscriptions
Quarries
Quarrying
Reading and Writing
Religious Buildings
Rock-cut Inscriptions - Places:
- Middle East, Gebel El Silsila, Aswan, Aswān, Egypt, Africa