Temples Gallery

Looking down on the island of Philae and its temples, Egypt, 1905.Artist: Underwood & Underwood

Looking down on the island of Philae and its temples, Egypt, 1905. Over on the right is the square kiosk which the natives call Pharaoh's Bed; it has no roof and never was finished, but it is one of the gems of the palace. It dates back from the Roman age. The building with the large pylon is the lsis temple. That little obelisk is one of a pair - the other has been carried to England. They were created in the time of Ptolemy IX (about 557 BC) and are of especial interest because the one now in England was the monument which enabled Champollion to take the first steps in his decipherment of the hieroglyphic, before he employed the Rosetta stone. Stereoscopic card. Detail. From a series called Egypt Through the Stereoscope, text by James H Breasted

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Ancient Greek ornamental architecture and sculpture, (1898). Creator: Unknown

Ancient Greek ornamental architecture and sculpture, (1898). Fig. I. Doric capital from Paestum (with painted ornaments). Fig 2: Jonic [Ionic] capital from the Erechtheium [Erechtheion] on the Acropolis of Athens. Fig 3: Corinthian capital from the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates at Athens. Fig 4: Caryatide from the Erechtheium. Figs 5 and 6: Acroteria from stelae (sepulchral columns), Paris. Figs 7-9: Anthemia-decorations. Figs 10 and 11: Griffins. Fragments of freezes. Figs 12 and 13. Legs of marble-tables in the National Museum at Naples. Figs 15 and 16: Legs of marble-tables in the National Museum in the British Museum at London'. Plate 4 from "The Historic Styles of Ornament" translated from the German of H. Dolmetsch. [B.T. Batford, London, 1898]

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Rome. Roman Forum. Night view of the Temple of Saturn and Te

Italy. Rome. Roman Forum. Temple of Saturn, 5th century BC, reconstructed in the 3rd century, and Temple of Concord, 4th century BC. Night view

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