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Philae

Artist Antonio Beato British, ca. 1825-ca. 1903

Date1870s?

DimensionsImage: 10 1/4 x 15 in. (26 x 38 cm);
Mount: 12 5/8 x 16 5/8 in. (32 x 42.2 cm)

MediumAlbumen print

ClassificationPhotographs

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. W. Howard Bond

Object number

1989.12

Not on View

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Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Travelers Through Ancient Lands, Sept. 10 - Feb. 6, 2011 (no cat.). Toledo Museum of Art, Refraction/Reflection, April 20-September 2, 2012.

Toledo Museum of Art, The Mummies: From Egypt to Toledo, February 3- May 6, 2018.

Label TextBritish 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.