Object Details
- Local Numbers
- B72658 027 T 6 EGY 398.2 EEE 65
- General
- Title is provided by EEPA staff based on photographer's notes.
- Local Note
- Selgem EE10861000
- A photographic print resides in the collection.
- Series Reference: 398.2.
- Frame value is 24.
- Slide No. T 6 EGY 398.2 EEE 65
- Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Collection Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Place
- Africa
- Egypt
- Topic
- Mural painting and decoration
- Animals in art
- Animals in art -- Beetles
- Animals in art -- Birds
- 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
- 1965
- Archival Repository
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
- Identifier
- EEPA.1973-001, Item EEPA EECL 17746
- 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
- "In a departure from tradition, most kings of the 18th Dynasty were buried not in pyramid complexes but in tombs tunneled deep into the limestone cliffs flanking a wadi in Thebes known as the Valley of the Kings (Bībān al-Mulūk). Royal tombs consisted of a series of passages leading via steps and ramps to a burial chamber housing the king's body in a stone sarcophagus." [Freed R.E., markowitz Y.J., D'auria S.H., 1999: Pharaohs of the Sun. Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamen. Bulfinch Press / Little, Brown and Company]. "The well-preserved tomb is decorated in painted, sunk relief with scenes from the Book of Gates, Book of Caverns, Book of the Heavenly Cow, Book of the Dead, Imydwat, Book of the Day (burial chamber), Book of the Night (burial chamber), Book of the Earth (burial chamber), the deceased with deities (burial chamber), astronomical scenes, the resurrection of Osiris, deities, and enigmatic compositions. Nearly a thousand graffiti in Greek, Latin, and Coptic are written over the scenes. There is a pit in the floor of burial chamber, which was never finished. Pilasters in the rear wall of the burial chamber are unfinished pillar cuttings, and wide platforms represent the unfinished cutting of the central sunken floor. The tomb as a whole is decorated with a wide variety of texts and scenes." [The Theban Mapping Project]. This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for American Institute of Architects, directing the Egyptian portion of the documentary on Ancient Egypt, March 1965 and September 1965.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
- Record ID
- ebl-1536870822481-1536871014033-3
