Dendérah (Tentyris). Temple d'Athôr - Face Postérieure - Cléopatre et Cæsarion

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Dendérah (Tentyris). Temple d'Athôr - Face Postérieure - Cléopatre et Cæsarion

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Félix Teynard

French Photographer · 1817–1892

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In 1851, while a civil engineer in Grenoble, France, a center of Egyptological research, Félix Teynard embarked on a journey to photograph architectural structures in Egypt. Presumably self-taught in photography, Teynard traveled more than a thousand miles up the Nile River, "isolated in a region of unmitigated poverty . . . amidst the peoples of Egypt and Nubia," carrying his cumbersome, heavy eq

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Date
negative 1851–1852; print 1853
Medium
Salted paper print
Culture
French
Department
Photographs
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Object ID
6bfced89-52b0-4a27-84ee-05e84db9e0ab

Detail of a sunken relief sculpture carved onto the side of an exterior temple wall. The scene depicts a female figure, Cleopatra, standing beside a male figure, Caesarion. Cleopatra is wearing a headdress with two horns and a sphere. Caesarion is wearing a pschent.

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