Facade of the Temple of Simbel, from the west / Frith. – Historic Print
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(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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This rare historic photograph captures Facade of the Temple of Simbel, from the west / Frith. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Facade of the Temple of Simbel, from the west / Frith.
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Four seated colossi of Ramesses II and the standing Osiris figures that flank the doorway dominate this view of the Great Temple at Abu Simbel, in Nubia. Francis Frith made the photograph on his Egyptian travels in the late 1850s, and it appeared as plate 32 in *Upper Egypt and Ethiopia*, published in London around 1862. The temple was cut into a sandstone cliff around 1260 BCE, then lost under sand for centuries until European travelers rediscovered it in 1813. Frith's view makes the scale of the facade easy to grasp.
| Created / published | [1862?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1860-1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Signed on glass plate. Published in: Upper Egypt and Ethiopia / Francis Frith. London : William Mackenzie, [1862?, pl. 32]. |
| Subjects | Ramses--II,--King of Egypt--Statues. Great Temple (Abū Sunbul, Egypt)--1850-1860. Osiris (Egyptian deity) Sculptures--Egypt--Abū Sunbul--1850-1860. Temples--Egypt--Abū Sunbul--1850-1860. Doors & doorways--Egypt--Abū Sunbul--1850-1860. Archaeological sites--Egypt--Abū Sunbul--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,737 × 4,667 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222000 |
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