Album 6 - [Egyptian Miniatures] Part B. New Empire
- Petrie MSS 5.6
- Akt(e)
- 1881-1882
Album containing photographs of Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom and Late Period antiquities and monuments, as well as some Ptolemaic, Roman, Coptic and Arab.
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Album 6 - [Egyptian Miniatures] Part B. New Empire
Album containing photographs of Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom and Late Period antiquities and monuments, as well as some Ptolemaic, Roman, Coptic and Arab.
Koptos.
Photograph of squeeze loose within album.
Koptos.
Photograph of squeeze loose within album.
Koptos.
Photograph of squeeze loose within album.
[104] Walls of brick village. Kom Ahmar.
Zawyet el-Amwat (Zâwyet el-Amwât; El-Maiyitin; El-Kom El-Ahmar).
Photograph loose within album.
Caption reads:
'Walls of brick village.
Kom Ahmar.'
Giza (Gîza). The Great Sphinx.
Note reads:
'The Sphinx is supposed to be of pyramid date from (1) a tablet of the time of Xufu which mentions it, and from (2) the dream of Thothmes IV which attributes it to Xafra. (3) also its surroundings at Gizeh, of any consequence, are of that period. But on the other hand the tablet was found in a temple of Petuxanu of 21st dynasty, and is clearly a later and altered copy (or an invention) as it contains figures of Osiris, Isis and Horus, Horus, Isis Seth, Pasht?, Khem, the human headed uraeus, and sacred bark, which are not found on the early monuments: beside which the mention of the sphinx in it is only an incidental topographical allusion, not essential to the tablet. The allusion by Thothmes IV is also not conclusive, and it is of doubtful critical value concerning a king who reigned 1000 or 2000 years earlier. The strongest positive argument for the late date of the sphinx is that no drawing of a sphinx in symbols, or hieroglyphs, & no statue, is known before the Hyksos; the black granite Hyksos sphinx in Bulak being the earliest I believe. Was it not then an Asiatic idea (see the Assyrian human-headed animals) imported by the Hyksos? To them seems due the notion of burying images of slaves with a body, none such being known before their epoch, and this being a form of the Asiatic custom of burying strangled slaves with a great funeral.'
[494] N.W. corner of W. pile, with stones in enclosure, and edge of it.
Biahmu (Biyahmu). Colossi of Amenemhat (Amenemhet) III, bases/pedestals.
Caption reads:
'N.W. corner of W. pile, with stones in enclosure, and edge of it.
These stones are the highest that exist between the walls
and the piles; and therefore the best evidence that there
is for a continuous pyramid.'
With three arrows pointing at the monuments described.
Giza (Gîza). The Great Sphinx.
Caption reads:
'The Sphinx
Side view, shewing the true profile.
It is entirely carved in rock, & not built'
[495] S.W. corner of W. pile; with enclosure of E. pile in distance.
Biahmu (Biyahmu). Colossi of Amenemhat (Amenemhet) III, bases/pedestals.
Caption reads:
'S.W. corner of W. pile; with enclosure of E. pile in distance.
Stones in front seem to shew a paving of the enclosed
courts surrounding the piles.'
With two arrows pointing at the monuments described.
[491] Closer view of corner of enclosure.
Biahmu (Biyahmu). Colossi of Amenemhat (Amenemhet) III, bases/pedestals.
Caption reads:
'Closer view of corner of enclosure. (exactly end on)
with projecting foot of masonry below slope.
angle by Howard Vyse, (also by this view with horizon) 63º 30'
Angle of a rise of 2 on a base of 1 - 63º 26''
[492] S.W. corner of the Eastern pile.
Biahmu (Biyahmu). Colossi of Amenemhat (Amenemhet) III, bases/pedestals.
Caption reads:
'S.W. corner of the Eastern pile.
my pit /88'
Also label for '5 ft rod'.
[493] S.E. corner of E. pile, and part of surrounding enclosure.
Biahmu (Biyahmu). Colossi of Amenemhat (Amenemhet) III, bases/pedestals.
Caption reads:
'S.E. corner of E. pile, and part of surrounding enclosure.
Shewing the ground to be clear between them; hence the outer
slope was not part of a pyramid, but rather of a mastaba-like
court; from the Arab name there were probably statues on
the piles: this resembling the pyramids with statues on them of Hdtus II.149.'
[490] The "Kursi Farûn", "Chair of Pharaoh".
Biahmu (Biyahmu). Colossi of Amenemhat (Amenemhet) III, bases/pedestals.
Caption reads:
'The "Kursi Farûn", "Chair of Pharaoh".
or Pyramids of Beyahmu.
from the South.'
Also labels for 'W. pile' and 'E. pile'.
[524] Probable site of Labyrinth.
Hawara. Labyrinth of Amenemhet III.
Caption reads:
'Probable site of Labyrinth.
Ground. South of Howara pyramid.
with passage of No 520.'
Also labels 'joins 525' and 'joins 523'.
[523] The so-called "Labyrinth" of Lepsius.
Hawara.
Caption reads:
'The so-called "Labyrinth" of Lepsius.
from the top of Howara pyramid. (No 529)'
[525] Probable site of the Labyrinth.
Hawara. Labyrinth of Amenemhet III.
Caption reads:
'Probable site of the Labyrinth.
The ground covered several feet deep in chips of fine white
stone from a destroyed building; underlaid by pavement'
[529] Brick walls of the "Labyrinth" of Lepsius.
Hawara. Foreground, Labyrinth of Amenemhet III; background, Pyramid of Amenemhet III.
Caption reads:
'Brick walls of the "Labyrinth" of Lepsius.
The bricks are the size of Roman bricks, & not of earlier
forms; the chambers are full of broken Roman pottery;
and are like those of Greek and Roman villages.'
[530] Remains of two passages (?)
Hawara.
Caption reads:
'Remains of two passages (?)
the right hand one is double, having another
beneath it. Howara.'
Hawara.
Caption reads:
'Piece of architrave?
In the ruins at Howara,
lying upside down.
XIIth dyn.'
[521] Great limestone pavement in two layers.
Hawara. Pyramid of Amenemhet III.
Caption reads:
'Great limestone pavement in two layers.
This ran under the great ruins (of the Labyrinth?)
on the S. of the pyramid. Now being destroyed by engineers.'
Hawara. Pyramid of Amenemhet III.
Caption reads:
'The Pyramid of Howara.
with remains of granite columns in the ruins.'
Hawara. Pyramid of Amenemhet III.
Caption reads:
'The Pyramid of Howara.
from S. with passage leading through the ruins.'
Zawyet el-Amwat (Zâwyet el-Amwât; El-Maiyitin; El-Kom El-Ahmar). Tomb of Nefersekheru.
[526] The Pyramid of Howara from the N
Hawara. Pyramid of Amenemhet III.
Zawyet el-Amwat (Zâwyet el-Amwât; El-Maiyitin; El-Kom El-Ahmar). Tomb of Nefersekheru.
Caption reads:
'Tomb of Nefer.sa.Xer [F35-s-x:r]
Ibis in boat with shrine? and attendant.
XIth dyn. Kom Ahmar'.
[472] Top of South brick pyramid, Dahshûr.
Dahshur. Pyramid of Amenemhat (Amenemhet) III.
Caption reads:
'Top of South brick pyramid, Dahshûr.
shewing the variable bonding of the bricks.'
[471] Small pyramid. South of S. pyramid of Dahshûr.
Dahshur. South Pyramid (Bent Pyramid) Complex of Snofru (Snefru), Subsidiary Pyramid.
[473] South brick pyramid of Dahshûr.
Dahshur. Pyramid of Amenemhat (Amenemhet) III.
Caption reads:
'South brick pyramid of Dahshûr.
from West'
[470] Casing at N.E. corner of S. pyramid Dahshûr.
Dahshur. South Pyramid (Bent Pyramid) of Snofru (Snefru).
Caption reads:
'Casing at N.E. corner of S. pyramid Dahshûr.
Shewing the courses to be slightly inclined.'
Also labels for '5 ft rod' and '473'.