BPLDC no.: 08_04_000019

Page Title: Page 18: pyramids of Khufu, Khafra, and Menkaura

Collection: Tupper Scrapbooks Collection

Album: Volume 26: Lower Egypt. Pyramids.

Call no. 4098B.104 v26 (p. 18)

Creator: Tupper, William Vaughn

Description: Scrapbook page containing one photograph of a man standing in front of several pyramids. The page also included several quotes, drawings of cartouches, and information about the Egyptian dynasties.

Subjects: Egypt travel photography pyramids (tombs) Jīzah, Ahrāmāt al-

Page size: 33 x 38.1 cm

Annotations: “As compared with the largest building in the world viz St. Peters at Rome The Pyramid of Cheops is as 58 to 22 or nearly three times as large—” As the 100.000 men were changed every three months it is estimated that Four Million persons were employed to construct the roadway, and Seven Million persons to build the Pyramid of Cheops. Birch Cartouches of Khufu or Cheops B.C. 3091-67 Khafra or Cephren B.C. 3067-43- Menkaura or Mycerinus B.C. 3043-20 The dates here given are those of Lepsius. Mariette would make them about 1.100 years earlier, and Wilkinson would make them about 600 years later. The Memphite IV Dynasty began with Snefru. M – 4235- B.C. L – 3124- B.C. W – 2450 B.C. “Few persons can be aware beforehand of the rich tawny hue that Egyptian limestone assumes after ages of exposure to the blaze of an Egyptian sky. Seen in certain lights the Pyramids look like piles of massy gold”– Moonlight lends to their majesty the sense of mystery; and a strange loneliness to the desert-

Language: English, photograph has French title

Rights: No known restrictions.

Coverage: Egypt

Notes: Title supplied by cataloger, derived from captions or annotated information.

Format: Scrapbooks

Technique: Photographs, Albumen prints

BPL Department: Print Department

Photo 1: Photographer: G. Lékégian & Cie.

Title: Pyramides de Ghizeh No. 5

Caption: Pyramid of Khufu.- Of Khafra. Of Mankaura.

Date: ca. 1865-1895

Flickr data on 2011-08-03:

• Camera: Sinar AG Sinarback 54 FW, Sinar m
• License: CC BY 2.0
• User: Boston Public Library BPL