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Philae: View of island and temples from west (1849 photo)
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Island and temples of Philae viewed from the west (photo: Maxime du Camp 1852).
This very early calotype print of Philae, taken from the adjacent Bigah Island, shows the high pylons of the Temple of Isis at left center, built in the Ptolemaic period in the 3rd century BC. Just behind it at right center is the Kiosk of Trajan, built in the Roman period in the 2nd century AD.
Du Camp, with his 1852 publication of the images from his expedition in Egypt with Flaubert in 1849, almost single-handedly began the use of photo documentation in Egyptology.
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