Object Details
- Local Numbers
- T 6 EGY 331.1 EE 61
- General
- Title is provided by EEPA staff based on photographer's notes.
- Local Note
- 62235 14
- Frame value is 29.
- Slide No. T 6 EGY 331.1 EE 61
- Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Collection Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Place
- Africa
- Egypt
- Topic
- Cultural landscapes
- Monuments
- Architecture -- Egypt
- Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- See more items in
- Eliot Elisofon Field collection
- Eliot Elisofon Field collection / Egypt
- Extent
- 1 Slides (photographs) (col.)
- Date
- 1961
- Archival Repository
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
- Identifier
- EEPA.1973-001, Item EEPA EECL 17588
- Type
- Archival materials
- Slides (photographs)
- Color slides
- Collection Citation
- Eliot Elisofon Field Collection, EEPA 1973-001, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution
- Collection Rights
- Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
- Genre/Form
- Color slides
- Scope and Contents
- "Sheshonq (Shoshenq) I enlarged the Amun temple at Karnak by adding a huge festival court in front of the Ramesside pylon. Virtually following Ramesside architectural tradition, the court was flanked on both sides by colonnades and enclosed the ramesside festival arena with the bark stations of Sethos II and Ramesses III. Between the temple of Ramesses III and the second pylon, room was available for a side entrance, the so-called Bubastide Gate. The first court encloses an area originally outside the temple proper and so contains a number of cryosphinxes (ram-headed sphinxes) displaced from their positions along the processional route starting from the ancient quay." [Arnold D., 1999: Temples of the Last Pharaohs. Oxford University Press]. "A village on East bank of the Nile in Upper Egypt; with Luxor, Karnak is on the site of ancient Thebes; location of temple of Amen, considered one of the finest examples of early New Kingdom religious architecture; also has many Middle Kingdom remains." [The J.P.Getty Fund: Thesaurus of Geographic Names]. This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was working on "The Nile" project and traveled to Africa from March 14, 1961 to March 31, 1961, visiting Egypt.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
- Record ID
- ebl-1536870822481-1536871013672-1
