Dendérah (Tentyris). Mammisi - Décoration Extérieure de la Face Sud

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Dendérah (Tentyris). Mammisi - Décoration Extérieure de la Face Sud

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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
aab3f4fb-cc1f-427a-83f4-ef31c5856cf0

Close view of an exterior wall of a ruined temple. The temple has been carved with hieroglyphs and sunken relief sculptures. A border featuring scenes with seated figures lines the lower half of the wall.

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