BPLDC no.: 08_04_000014
Page Title: Route to the Pyramids
Collection: Tupper Scrapbooks Collection
Album: Volume 26: Lower Egypt. Pyramids.
Call no. 4098B.104 v26 (p. 13)
Creator: Tupper, William Vaughn
Description: Scrapbook page with one photograph showing a tree-lined road leading to the pyramids in Egypt, annotated with information about the pyramids.
Subjects:
Egypt
travel photography
landscapes (environments)
pyramids (tombs)
Jīzah, Ahrāmāt al-
Pyramids--Egypt--Al-Qāhirah
Page size: 33 x 38.1 cm
Annotations: The period of Pyramid building seems to have been from the IVth to XII Dynasty a period of about two thousand years. The Pyramid seemed to have faded out in the XII dynasty and was succeeded by the rock tomb and the mortuary temple. Only two, Sakhara and Medum, are supposed to be earlier than the great Pyramid of Cheops. The Pyramid was never a family monument but belonged like other Egyptian tombs to one person, the other members of a royal family having small pyramids near that of the king. There are several near that of Cheops.
Language: English, photograph has French title
Rights: No known restrictions.
Coverage: Egypt
Notes: Title supplied by cataloger, derived from captions or annotated information.
Format: Scrapbooks
Technique: Photographs, Albumen prints
BPL Department: Print Department
Photo 1:
Photographer: G. Lékégian & Cie.
Title: Route des Pyramides No. 3
Caption: Route to the Pyramids. Shaded by lebbek trees.
Date: ca. 1865- 1895
Flickr data on 2011-08-03:
- Camera: Sinar AG Sinarback 54 FW, Sinar m
- License: CC BY 2.0
- User: Boston Public Library BPL
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