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General View of Esouan and the Island of Elephantine.

General View of Esouan and the Island of Elephantine.

David Roberts. R.A. L. Haghe Lith.
London, Published F. G. Moon, 20 Threadneedle Street, July. 1st. 1848.
Tinted lithograph, printed area 330 x 490mm (13 x 19¼").
Aswan, situated at Egypt's first cataract, studded with numerous granite islands. The largest, Elephantine Island has various monuments, and a Nubian settlement. Qubbet el-Hawa was the burial ground of the Old Kingdom noblemen from Elephantine, and their tombs were hewn out of the rock, about halfway up the hill facing the river.
[Ref: 4922]  £900.00


 

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