Qina (governate)
Found in 39 Collections and/or Records:
Avenue of Sphinxes, Karnak, 1890 - 1899
Approximately 220 x 160 mm. Photographer unknown.
Bivouac at Luxor, 1898
153 x 114 mm. A view showing Camerons and stacked rifles at Luxor Station.
Camerons breakfasting at Luxor Station, 1898
154 x 114 mm. A view showing troops eating their breakfast at Luxor station platform, with their rifles stacked in rows in front of them.
Camerons breakfasting at Luxor Station, 1898
154 x 126 mm. A view showing troops eating their breakfast at Luxor station platform, with their rifles stacked in rows in front of them.
Cleopatra's Temple at Erment [Armant], 1857
157 x 229 mm. A view showing the ruins of Cleopatra's Temple (about five miles south of Thebes) with an Arab sitting on broken rubble in the foreground.
Cleopatra's Temple at Erment [Armant] near thebes, 1857
211 x 160 mm. A view showing the standing columns of the Temple at Erment (also spelt Armant) with piles of rubbish and a seated figure in the foreground. In his commentary Frith condemns the contemporary prejudice that anything less than three thousand years old is considered 'degenerate', modern - of no interest.
Egyptian children at Esna, 1921
241 x 193 mm. A view showing a group of children in the market place at Esna.
Entrance to the Great Temple, Luxor, 1857
231 x 161 mm. A view showing the massive stone entrance to the temple with carved hieroglyphics over its face and flanked by two monumental statues of Rameses II buried to the shoulders in the sand and the rubble. Beyond the entrance can be seen the tower of a mosque of more recent date.
Hall of columns, Karnac, 1857
228 x 160 mm. A view showing the closely built pillars of the great hall at Karnac (the Hypostele Hall of Sethy I and Rameses II) with piles of debris and stone in the foreground. Frith comments of his photograph: 'I am even ashamed of my view, it is so thoroughly inadequate to the subject.'
Interior court of Medinet Haboo [Habu], Thebes, 1857
232 x 162 mm. A view showing one of the inner temple courtyards with sculptured hieroglyphic inscriptions on the supporting pillars. In the courtyard itself lie fallen columns.
Karnak, 1928-08-27
230 x 170 mm. Showing the temple complex at Karnak, Thebes. The coordinates are given as: 45.N.136.P.
Luxor, Mar 1920, 1920-03
45 x 65 mm. View of the columns of the temple.
Luxor, Mar 1920, 1920-03
60 x 85 mm. View of the columns of the temple.
Luxor, Mar 1920, 1920-03
70 x 45 mm. View of a temple.
Luxor, Mar 1920, 1920-03
120 x 80 mm. Showing the temple.
Luxor Temple, 1920
70 x 44 mm.
Luxor Temple, 1920
43 x 69 mm.
Obelisk and granite Lotus Column, Karnac, 1857
155 x 231 mm. A view showing the obelisk, which is , according to Frith: 'the most beautiful in Egypt', and the broken Lotus Column, which is, again according to Frith: 'an exquisite piece of work', standing among the ruins of Karnac.
Osiride Pillars and great fallen Colossus, the Memnonium, Thebes, 1857
238 x 161 mm. A view showing the row of Osiride pillars with the overturned colossal bust of Rameses II lying face down in the sand. In the foreground stands a group of Europeans, one of whom lies on the shoulders of the Colossus. It was from the Memnonium (more properly the Ramesseum) that Belzoni in 1816 took the other colossal statue, the 'young Memnon', now in the British Museum.
Pillars in the great hall, Karnac, 1857
221 x 163 mm. A view showing the densely packed columns of the great hall sculptured with hieroglyphics and with an Arab standing in the foreground. Frith comments: 'The effect which the builders appear to have had in view in this remarkable crowding together of enormous columns, is the combined impression of vastness and power - almost of awe - which they produce upon the mind when standing amongst them; and nowhere is this effect attained so perfectly as at Karnac.'
Portico of the temple, Dendera, 1857
233 x 153 mm. The wrong photograph has been mounted here, this view being a copy of Y30214A/34 and showing the interior courtyard of Medinet Haboo (Habu).
Pylon gateway at Medinet Haboo [Habu], 1857
155 x 230 mm. A view showing the massive gateway with sculptured hieroglyphics leading to an inner courtyard at Medinet Haboo, on the western bank of the Nile at Thebes. Frith comments: 'But perhaps nothing will strike the traveller more, as he wanders through these wonderful ruins, than the succession of pylon-gateways, leading from one immense sculptured court to another. The one now represented is, I believe, the third from the entrance.'
Sculptured gateway, etc, Karnac, 1857
231 x 161 mm. A view showing one of the entrance gateways o Karnac at the end of the avenue of recumbent sphinxes, one of which (headless) can be seen in the foreground. The gateway itself is richly sculptured with hieroglyphics. Technically, a fine print, with full detail in the shadows of the gateway.
[Temple of Deir El-Bahri], 1928-09-29
230 x 175 mm. Showing Queen Hatshepsut's temple. The coordinates are given as: 45.N.133.P.
Temple of Luxor, Mar 1920, 1920-03
85 x 60 mm.