Philae
Artist: Antonio Beato (British, ca. 1825-ca. 1903)
Date: 1870s?
Dimensions:
Image: 10 1/4 x 15 in. (26 x 38 cm);
Mount: 12 5/8 x 16 5/8 in. (32 x 42.2 cm)
Medium: Albumen print
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. W. Howard Bond
Object number: 1989.12
Label Text:British photographer Antonio Beato worked first in India, setting up a photography studio in Calcutta. By 1860 he had visited Cairo, Egypt, and soon established a business in Luxor (ancient Thebes). This is a view of an Ancient Egyptian temple complex at Philae. At the time of this photograph, Philae was an island in the First Cataract of the Nile River. With the construction of the Aswan Dam in the 1960s Philae was flooded; the temple complex was dismantled and moved to Agilkia, an island less affected by the dam project.
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