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Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Images of Egypt

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Featured in this collection are over 200 photographs held by the Frank H. McClung Museum, including the work of well-known pioneering photographers of Egypt such as Felix Bonfils, J. Pascal Sébah, and the Zangaki Brothers.
Date Created
1851-1932

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Relief, Amen-Re Blessing Hatshepsut as Pharoah on Pyramidian of Fallen Obelisk

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  • Relief of Amen-Re blessing Hatshepsut as Pharaoh (New Kingdom - Dynasty XVIII) on pyramidian of fallen obelisk; kneeling Hatshepsut in three-quarter view wearing the khepresh headdress faces right as the seated Amen-Re in three-quarter view...
Date created
  • 1870-1913
 2022-12-10 Public
 

Der-El-Bahari

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  • Temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Der el-Baharim (New Kingdom - Dynasty XVIII), West Thebes. Colonnaded mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, designed and implemented by Senemut to serve for her posthumous worship and to honor the god Amen, local deity of...
Date created
  • 1870-1913
 2022-12-10 Public
 

Karnak Grand Temple; Salle Hypostyle

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  • Hypostyle Hall, Temple of Amen at Karnak, East Thebes (New Kingdom Dynasty XIX); open papyrus columns of the Temple of Amen hypostyle hall heavily inscribed with images of deities, hieroglyphs, and cartouches of builder, Rameses II; closed papyrus...
Date created
  • 1870-1929
 2022-12-10 Public
 

Sphinx Armachis

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  • The Great Sphinx at Gizeh (Old Kingdom Dynasty IV); the Dream Stele of Thutmose IV, erected 1401 B.C.E., before the partially unexcavated Great Sphinx, three Egyptian men stand on or near paws; Pyramid of Khafre and Pyramid of Menkaure...
Date created
  • 1865-1895
 2022-12-10 Public
 

Haute-Egypte temple d'Edfou

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  • Inner court and colonnade, Temple of Horus at Edfu (Ptolemaic Period); view from Egyptian motif incised inner court looking out to papyrus column colonnade and bench with two figures (foreground); pylon with images of deities incised into stone...
Date created
  • 1870-1929
 2022-12-10 Public
 

Luxor-Hôtel

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  • The Luxor Hotel at Luxor, East Thebes; western style hotel built for tourists visiting Egypt, late 19th - early 20th century; group of people in western clothes pose for picture before entrance to hotel, porter station, behind, Egyptian man...
Date created
  • 1870-1929
 2022-12-10 Public
 

Coffin of Queen Ma'at-kere

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  • Coffin of Queen Ma'at-kere (Third Intermediate Period) at an Egyptian Museum; close up of Queen Ma'at-kere's heavily inscribed wooden coffin with crossed hand, left missing, below passive face with lined eyes and elaborate wig; untitled print.
Date created
  • 1870-1913
 2022-12-10 Public
 

Egypt. Karnak. The entrance Pylon of the Karnak Temple.

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  • Gateway of Ptolemy III, Euergetes I at Karnak, East Thebes (Ptolemaic Period); monumental gateway with rows of incised images of Ptolemy III wearing different crowns and giving offerings to Horus, Isis, and Osiris, row of repeated theme below...
Date created
  • 1870-1913
 2022-12-10 Public
 

Abydos Interieur du Temple

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  • Relief from the Temple of Seti I at Abydos (New Kingdom Dynasty XIX); relief of Seti I wearing hedjet crown in mummy form upon flat surface, images of Horus in falcon form (above, left and right of pharaoh), Horus and (possibly) Isis bless him...
Date created
  • 1870-1885
 2022-12-10 Public
 

Kom-Ombo le Temple

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  • Hypostyle Hall, Temple of Sobek and Haroeris at Kom Ombo (Ptolemaic Period); main Temple after cleared of debris by Jacques de Morgan in 1893, with heavily inscribed broken columns drums before hypostyle hall of open papyrus columns supporting...
Date created
  • 1893-1929
 2022-12-10 Public