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Wf1/4624(13)
- Record Id:
- 040-003302701
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003302688
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028276000.0x001590
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Wf1/4624(13)
- Title:
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The Pyramids of Sakkarah, from the north-east. Photographer: Frith, Francis
- Scope & Content:
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith 185' in the negative.
Genre: Archaeological Photography
View looking towards the step-pyramid of Djoser, with a smaller, rubble-built Pyramid of Userkaf in the foreground (to the north-east). Frith's text draws attention to the human skull lying on the sand in the foreground: 'The distance of the larger of the structures, the dazzling sunlight, and as strong shade on both, the undulations of shifting sand, with here and there a mummy-pit, into which an unwary passer-by may easily fall, bring back to the mind every characteristic of this striking view. The lesser features are not wanting to render it complete: there, in the foreground, is a human skull, and a little beyond it the skull of a sacred bull. It is no unusual chance that brings them here: throughout the whole vast Necropolis the bones of men and of bulls and ibises are strewn around the mouths of the desecrated pits ...'
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003302688
040-003302701 - Is part of:
- Wf1/4624 : Lower Egypt and Thebes. By F. Frith. Photographer(s): Frith, Francis
Wf1/4624(13) : The Pyramids of Sakkarah, from the north-east. Photographer: Frith, Francis - Hierarchy:
- 032-003302688[0013]/040-003302701
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Wf1/4624
- 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:
- 1858
- Date Range:
- c 1857
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 157 mm x 215 mm
Format: Printed Book
Secondary Support: Card
- Former External References:
- 185
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Frith, Francis, 1822-1898
- Subjects:
- Pyramid of Dsojer (Saqqara)
Pyramids
Tombs and Sepulchral Monuments - Places:
- Saqqara, Al Jīzah, Egypt, Africa, Middle East