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Portico of the temple of Kalabshe / David Roberts, R.A. – Antique Print

Portico of the temple of Kalabshe / David Roberts, R.A., [published between 1846 and 1849] — antique lithograph
Portico of the temple of Kalabshe / David Roberts, R.A., [published between 1846 and 1849]. Antique lithograph from the Middle East & Holy Land collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Portico of the temple of Kalabshe / David Roberts, R.A.

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Roberts drew this portico of the temple at Kalabshe, a sandstone sanctuary on the Nile in Nubia, during his 1838-1839 journey through Egypt and Nubia. The temple was built in the Roman period, under Augustus, and was dedicated to the Nubian sun god Mandulis. Louis Haghe's color lithograph, issued in parts by F. G. Moon between 1846 and 1849, shows the monument as Roberts saw it before the site was dismantled and rebuilt in the 1960s to escape the rising waters of Lake Nasser.

Created / published[published between 1846 and 1849]
Medium1 print : lithograph, color.
GenreBook illustrations 1840-1850.Lithographs Color 1840-1850.
NotesIllus. in: Egypt & Nubia / from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts ... ; lithographed by Louis Haghe. London : F.G. Moon, 1846-1849, v. 1, pt. 28.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,457 × 1,170 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-217937

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