BPLDC no.: 08_04_000184

Page Title: Colossal Statue of Rameses II, near Memphis. The second King of XIX Dynasty. Sesostris of the Greeks

Collection: William Vaughn Tupper Scrapbook Collection

Album: On the Nile. Cairo to Luxor.

Call no.: 4098B.104 v31 (p.3)

Creator: Tupper, William Vaughn

Photographer: G. Lékégian & Cie.

Genre: Scrapbooks; Albumen prints

Extent: 1 photographic print mounted on page : albumen ; page 33 x 39 cm.

Description: Scrapbook page contains one photograph of a statue of Rameses II with men standing in front the statue. Page includes handrawn hyroglyphics with annotations.

Transcription: Herodotus Book II." This Sesostris, the priests went on to say upon his return home accmompanied by vast multitudes of the people whose countries he had subdued was receieved a Narnæ, near Pelusium, by his brother, whom he had made viceroy of Egypt on his departure and invited by him to a banquet attended with his sons. Then his brother piled a quantitiy of woodall around the building and having done so set it a light. [ see opposite page, upper portion]. The statue was discovered by Caviglia an ignorant sailor excavator, and Sloane, and was presented to the British Museum, but the authorities quailed before the task of its removal. It is of Limestone...

Notes: Page description supplied by cataloger, derived from catpions and/or annotated information.; Caption on image: Mit Rahme (Statue Ramses No. 17 ; Transcription is continued on following page.

BPL Department: Print Department