title: Part of the north wall and moat of Caesarea.  The walls are six feet in thickness and are strengthened by buttresses; they are still from twenty to thirty feet in height.  The moat is lined with masonry.  There are three ruined towers in the north wall, two of which are shown above.

text: Archaeological sites

text: Israel

text: Caesarea

text: Castles & palaces

text: Israel

text: Caesarea

text: Forts & fortifications

text: Israel

text: Caesarea

text: Moats

text: Israel

text: Caesarea

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


mmsType: Item

title: P-20

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authority: lctgm

text: Cuneiform

type: citation/reference

text: Oppenheim P20

title: P-20

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collectionTitle: Wilberforce Eames Babylonian collection.


title: P-21

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim P21

title: P-21


field: dateIssued

keyDate: yes

point: start

point: end

title: Tower of the castle at Caeserea. Built by the crusaders.  It probably occupies the site of "Strato's tower," which was succeeded by the "Tower Drusus" of Herod.

namePart: Wilson, Charles William, Sir (1836-1905)

type: personal

authority: naf

authority: lcsh

text: Archaeological sites

type: geographic

text: Israel

text: Caesarea

text: Bodies of water

authority: tgm

text: Castles & palaces

text: Israel

text: Caesarea

text: Towers

text: Israel

text: Casearea

type: statement of responsibility

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings

collectionTitle: Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt.


title: R-3

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim R03

title: R-3


title: Remains of a fortified khan at Mukhâlid. A saracenic structure, which has long  been in ruins.  It  is nearly a mile from the seashore and close to the little village of Mukhâlid.  The solitary tree near to it is a well-known landmark.

usage: primary

text: Archaeological sites

text: Israel

text: Caravansaries

text: Trees

text: Israel

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: R-4

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim R04

title: R-4


title: Neby ben Yamîn (Tomb of the prophet Benjamin).  A Mohammaden shrine about half a mile to the east of Kefr Saba. A well of good water adjoins it.  In the foreground a peasant is guiding a primitive plough and a yoke of oxen.

namePart: Woodward, John Douglas (1846-1924)

text: Plows

text: Kefar Sava (Israel)

text: Ox teams

text: Israel

text: Tombs & sepulchral monuments

text: Israel

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: R-8

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim R08

title: R-8


title: R-9

text: Cuneiform

type: content

text: Eames R09

text: Drehem, Ur III

title: R-9


title: Kefar Saba.  A straggling village consisting of houses built chiefly of sun-dried bricks, with extensive orchards to the west and south of it.  It is fourteen miles from Jaffa, and is interesting in as much as it preserves the name of the ancient Caphar Saba.

namePart: Johnstone, J.

text: Donkeys

text: Kefar Sava (Israel)

text: Men

text: Israel

text: Kefar Sava

text: Minarets

text: Israel

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: R-11

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim R11

title: R-11


title: The castle of Mirabel.  Now called Kûlat Râs el 'Ain, built by the Crusaders before the year 1149.  It is nor a mere shell and encloses a large space of ground, in the centre of which stands a small mosque.

text: Flowers

text: Castles & palaces

text: Israel

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: R-14

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim R14

title: R-14


title:
The
    Nahr el Aujeh from Kûlat Râs el 'Ain.  The river rises out of the earth in several copious streams at the foot of the mound on which the castle stands.  This mound has been satisfactorily identified as the site of Antipatris.

namePart: Dana, William Jay (1839-1913)

text: Tobacco pipes

text: Architectural elements

text: Israel

text: Aphek (Extinct city)

text: Men

text: Israel

text: Rivers

text: Israel

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: R-17

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim R17

title: R-17


title: Sacred tree called Sheikh et Teim. South of the extensive mound of ruins and tombs known to the Arabs as Tibneh, but which has long  been regarded as the site of Tinmath Sera, the city of Joshua.

text: Tubnah (Jordan)

text: Trees

text: Jordan

text: Tubnah

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: S-1

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim S01

title: S-1


title: The traditional tomb of Joshua, in the rock cemetary at Tibneh.  In the niches of its walls pilgrims placed lighted lamps, and in their great number indicates that it was a highly revered shrine.

text: Pilgrims

text: Tombs & sepulchral monuments

text: Jordan

text: Tubnah

type: name

nameType: personal

text: Joshua (Biblical figure)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: S-2 (case present)

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim S02

title: S-2 (case present)


title: Caesarea.

namePart: Armytage, James Charles (d. 1897)

text: Caesarea (Israel)

text: Mediterranean Sea

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: Caesarea.

text: Steel engravings


title: S-3 (case present)

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim S03

title: S-3 (case present)


title: S-4 (tablet and case present)

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim S04

title: S-4 (tablet and case present)


title: Landing at Jaffa. This is always attended with difficulty, as there is no harbor for large vessels at Jaffa.  Steamers are obliged to anchor in the roadstead, about half a mile from the shore, and passengers are landed in small Arab boats.

text: Mediterranean Sea

text: Ships

text: Israel

text: Tel Aviv

text: Jaffa

text: Rowboats

text: Israel

text: Tel Aviv

text: Jaffa

text: Passengers

text: Israel

text: Tel Aviv

text: Jaffa

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: S-7 (case present)

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim S07

title: S-7 (case present)


title:
The
    mosque at Jaffa.  A modern structure in the north-east quarter of the town.  It can easily be distinguished in the general view of Jaffa (see steel plate). where it appears between the masts of the Arab fishing boats.

text: Jaffa (Tel Aviv, Israel)

text: Markets

text: Israel

text: Tel Aviv

text: Jaffa

text: Mosques

text: Israel

text: Tel Aviv

text: Jaffa

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: S-8

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim S08

title: S-8


title: Shittim tree at Jaffa, in the Mohammadan cemetary north of the town, close to the sea.  Represented at the hour of sunset, the time of evening prayer.

text: Cemeteries

text: Israel

text: Tel Aviv

text: Jaffa

text: Trees

text: Israel

text: Prayer

text: Islam

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: S-10

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim S10

title: S-10


title: The traditional house of Simon the Tanner.  A Mohammadan sanctuary.  On the south side of the court of the house there is an arched recess, in which a lamp is always kept burning, and where pilgrims perform their devotions.  A well of good water and a fig tree add to the attractiveness of this 'place'.

text: Fig trees

text: Israel

text: Wells

text: Israel

text: Water pipes (Smoking)

text: Shrines

text: Israel

text: Prayer

text: Islam

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: S-16

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim S16

title: S-16


title: View of the rock-encircled harbour at Jaffa, from the roof of the house of Simon the Tanner.  The building in the foreground, with its domes and perforated parapets, is a characteristic example of native domestic architecture in towns and cities of Southern Palestine.

text: Buildings

text: Israel

text: Harbors

text: Israel

text: Tel Aviv

text: Jaffa

text: Mediterranean Sea

text: Ships

text: Israel

text: Tel Aviv

text: Jaffa

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: S-19

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim S19

title: S-19


title:
A
    roadside fountain and tomb.  The Sebîl of Abû Nabût, commonly called the Tomb of Tabitha (Dorcas).

namePart: Harley

text: Camels

text: Israel

text: Jaffa (Tel Aviv, Israel)

text: Tombs & sepulchral monuments

text: Israel

text: Tel Aviv

text: Jaffa

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: S-20

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim S20

title: S-20


title: S-24

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim S24

title: S-24


title: Public fountain at Jaffa, near to the gate of the town, shaded by an octagonal domed structure, formed of eight pointed arches supported by columns.

text: People

text: City walls

text: Israel

text: Tel Aviv

text: Jaffa

text: Fountains

text: Israel

text: Tel Aviv

text: Jaffa

text: Jaffa (Tel Aviv, Israel)

text: Markets

text: Israel

text: Tel Aviv

text: Jaffa

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: TT-4

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim TT04

title: TT-4


title: Scene in a Jaffa garden.  Two women engaged in working a sâkiyeh, a clumsy machine for raising water from a well to fill a reservoir.  On the branch of the pomegranate there is a chameleon.

text: Chameleons

text: Women

text: Israel

text: Tel Aviv

text: Jaffa

text: Water pumps

text: Israel

text: Tel Aviv

text: Jaffa

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: TT-6

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim TT06

title: TT-6


title: Scene in the bazaar at Jaffa.  A public café, in a deep arched recess, with a group of smokers.  An attendant pounding coffee is steadying a wooden mortar with his naked feet. In the foreground there are fruit-stalls and a Bedouin with his tufted lance; a water-carrier and a peasant boy leading a camel are passing by.

text: Camels

text: Dogs

text: Cafes

text: Israel

text: Tel Aviv

text: Jaffa

text: Coffee

text: Israel

text: Tel Aviv

text: Jaffa

text: Jaffa (Tel Aviv, Israel)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: TT-9

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim TT09

title: TT-9


title: TT-11 (damaged case)

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim TT11

type: admin

text: [was also in Box 29]

title: TT-11 (damaged case)


title: Sanctuary of Imâm 'Aly.  Surmounted on one large and eight smaller domes.  On the road between Jaffa and Ramleh, near the village of Yazûr.

text: Goatherds

text: Israel

text: Goats

text: Israel

text: Trees

text: Israel

text: Shrines

text: Israel

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: UU-16

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim UU16

title: UU-16


title: Jaffa, the ancient Joppa.

namePart: Crew, John J.

text: Beaches

text: Israel

text: Jaffa

text: Tel Aviv

text: Boats

text: Israel

text: Jaffa (Tel Aviv, Israel)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: Jaffa, the ancient Joppa.

text: Wood engravings


title: VV-1

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim VV01

title: VV-1


title:
The
    tower at Ramleh. Said to be the minaret of a large mosque which once stood here.  According to an Arabic inscription over the door, it was built in the year 1318.  It is known as the White Mosque.

text: Archaeological sites

text: Israel

text: Ramlah

text: Cattle

text: Israel

text: Ramlah (Israel)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: VV-2

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim VV02

title: VV-2


title: Ruins of the church of St. George at Ludd, the ancient Lydda.  The nave and the north aisle have recently been converted into a Greek church; the south aisle is destroyed, and the remainder is used as the court of a mosque.

text: Archaeological sites

text: Israel

text: Lod

text: Bodies of water

text: Israel

text: Lod

text: Lod (Israel)

text: Mosques

text: Israel

text: Lod

text: Orthodox churches

text: Israel

text: Lod

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: VV-6

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim VV06

title: VV-6


title: VV-11

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim VV11

title: VV-11


title: Plain of Sharon from the tower, Ramleh.  This tower, shown on page 144, was the minaret of a mosque called Jâmi'a el Abtad. It has a winding staircase of one hundred and twenty steps.  Its eastern windows overlook the town of Ramleh and the plain beyond, bounded by the hills of Judea.

text: Men

text: Israel

text: Ramlah

text: Minarets

text: Israel

text: Ramlah

text: Towers

text: Israel

text: Ramlah

text: Sharon, Plain of (Israel)

text: Ramlah (Israel)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: VV-13

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim VV13

title: VV-13


title: Sur'ah, the ancient Zorah.  The birthplace of Sampson.  It is five miles south of Latrôn, on a conical hill on the north side of the Wâdy es Sur'ar (The valley of Sorek).

text: Tsor'ah (Israel)

text: Samson (Biblical judge)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: VV-16

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim VV16

title: VV-16


title:
The
    ruined fortress of Latrôn, from 'Amwâs, the Emmaus of the Maccabees, afterwards called Nicopolis.  In the foreground are the remains of the ancient church of Emmaus. There is a direct road, running southwards, from  Latrôn to Zorah, over hills dotted with ruined sites.

text: Emmaus (Israel : Extinct city)

text: Forts & fortifications

text: Israel

text: `Imwas

text: Archaeological sites

text: Israel

text: `Imwas

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: VV-17

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim VV17

title: VV-17


title: Shrine of Sheikh Samat at Sur'ah (Zorah), on the summit of the hill. Below is shown the upper part of the Wâdy es Su'ar (Vally of Sorek), which falls into the river called Nahr Rubîn.

namePart: Badoureau, Ed.

text: Palms

text: Tsor'ah (Israel)

text: Tombs & sepulchral monuments

text: Israel

text: Tsor'ah

text: Shrines

text: Israel

text: Tsor'ah

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: VV-26

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim VV26

title: VV-26


title: VV-29

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim VV29

title: VV-29


title: 'Ain Shems, the site of Beth-Shemesh.  South of the Wâdy es Sur'ar (Sorek) and nearly opposite to Sur'ah (Zorah).  The ancient and modern names Beth-Shemesh (House of the Sun) and 'Ain Shems (Eye of the Sun) are indicative of sun worship.

text: Bedouins

text: Bet Shemesh (Israel)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: VV-30

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim VV30

title: VV-30


title:
The
    valley of Sorek.  Where the men of Beth-Shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest when the ark arrived from Ekron.

namePart: Meeder, Philip (d. 1913)

text: Bedouins

text: Trees

text: Israel

text: Sorek River Valley (Israel)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: VV-32

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim VV32

title: VV-32


title: Tibneh, the site of Timnath.  The home of Samson's wife , and the scene of his encounter with the young lion in the vineyard.

text: Bees

text: Israel

text: Lizards

text: Israel

text: Tubnah (Jordan)

text: Samson (Biblical judge)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: VV-33

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim VV33

title: VV-33


title: Wâdy es Sunt, the Valley of Elah.   The scene of David's encounter with Goliath.  THe valley winds between the low hills and enters the plain of Philistia opposite Tel es Sâfy.

text: David, King of Israel

text: Goliath (Biblical giant)

text: Trees

text: Israel

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: VV-34

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim VV34

title: VV-34


title: VV-35

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim VV35

title: VV-35


title: Shocoh, the camp of the Philistines.  This site, now called Shuweikeh, is marked by extensive ruins, large terebinth-trees, and a Mohammadan shrine dedicated to Sheikh Abû Helâl.

text: Flowers

text: Middle East

text: Shrines

text: Middle East

text: Philistines

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: VV-46

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim VV46

title: VV-46


title: Ploughing in the plains of Philistia, in the neighborhood of Tell es Sâfy. Ploughing and sowing for winter crops extends from the end of November to the middle of January or later.

text: Archaeological sites

text: Middle East

text: Plowing

text: Middle East

text: Plows

text: Middle East

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: VV-47

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim VV47

title: VV-47


title: Tell es Sâfy, the supposed site of Gath. An isolated hill of irregular form sixteen miles from the seashore.  A shrine dedicated to El Khudr (St. George) stands on the highest point, six hundred and ninety-three feet above the sea.  The Roman road runs north and south on the eastern side of the Tell.

text: Leaves

text: Bodies of water

text: Middle East

text: Shrines

text: Middle East

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: VV-48

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim VV48

title: VV-48


title: Yabneh, the ancient Jabneh. Called also Jabneel, and by the Greeks Jamnia.  It is a large village, four miles from the seashore, surrounded by orchards. Its mosque was once a Christian church. Its port, once the rival of Joppa, has now almost entirely disappeared.

text: Orchards

text: Israel

text: Yavneh

text: Yavneh (Israel)

text: Ruins

text: Israel

text: Yavneh

text: Religious facilities

text: Israel

text: Yavneh

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: VV-50

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim VV50

title: VV-50


title: Eshdûd, the ancient Ashdod.  Called by the Greeks Azotus.  The modern village stands on the slope of a hill, one hundred feet above the sea, and three miles from the shore.  The green knoll in the foreground is crowned by the wely of Sheikh Ibrahim el Matbûk.

text: Ashdod (Israel)

text: Harvesting

text: Israel

text: Ashdod

text: Women

text: Israel

text: Ashdod

text: Tombs & sepulchral monuments

text: Israel

text: Ashdod

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: VV-51

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim VV51

title: VV-51


title: VV-53

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim VV53

title: VV-53


title:
El
    Mejdel, the Ancient Migdol.  An important village of fifteen hundred inhabitants.  Its mosque and tall minaret are constructed of ancient materials. A weekly fair is held here.

text: Palms

text: Camels

text: Israel

text: Men

text: Israel

text: Migdal

text: Migdal (Israel)

text: Minarets

text: Israel

text: Migdal

text: Mosques

text: Israel

text: Migdal

text: Water pipes (Smoking)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: VV-56

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim VV56

title: VV-56


title: Ruins of Ascalon, from the North-east. Here there are fine orchards and olive- trees, cultivated by the Egyptian peasants of the neighboring village of El Jûrah. The wild onions of 'Askûlon are celebrated for their delicate flavor. The Romans gave them the name of Ascalonia, hence scalogn (Ital.) and shallot (Allium Ascalonicum).

text: Orchards

text: Israel

text: Ashkelon

text: Sheep

text: Israel

text: Shepherds

text: Israel

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: VV-57

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim VV57

title: VV-57


title: Gaza

namePart: Willmore, Arthur (1814-1888)

text: People

text: Gaza

text: Reading

text: Gaza Strip

text: Gaza

text: Cactus

text: Gaza Strip

text: Gaza

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: Gaza

text: Steel engravings


title: VV-62

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim VV62

title: VV-62


title: Ruins of Ashkelon, from the South-west.  Here there is a shallow bay, with a landing-place for small boats.  The beach is strewn with masses of ancient masonry. On the cliff above there is a Mohammadan shrine, called El Khudrah, with a few palm trees near it.

text: Bodies of water

text: Israel

text: Ashkelon

text: Beaches

text: Israel

text: Ashkelon

text: Boats

text: Israel

text: Ashkelon

text: Cliffs

text: Israel

text: Shrines

text: Israel

text: Ashkelon

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: VV-64

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim VV64

title: VV-64


title: Ruins of Ashkelon, from the North.  Showing fortifications at the north-west corner of the city.  The western wall was about twelve hundred feet in length and followed the lines of the edge of the cliffs which are from thirty to seventy feet in height. The conquest of Ascalon by Rameses II is recorded on the walls of the Temple of Karnac.

text: Seas

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: VV-73

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim VV73

title: VV-73


title: Güzzeh, the ancient Gaza.  The modern village, which is of semi-Egyptian character, has neither walls nor gates. The serai dates from the thirteenth century, and the great mosque, Jami'a el Kebîr, which towers above the palm trees, was originally a Byzantine cathedral.

text: Cemeteries

text: Gaza Strip

text: Gaza

text: Cattle

text: Gaza Strip

text: Gaza

text: Mosques

text: Gaza Strip

text: Gaza

text: Camels

text: Gaza Strip

text: Gaza

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: VV-76

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim VV76

title: VV-76


title: VV-78

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim VV78

title: VV-78


title: A well in the plain of Philistia. Around it there were a few rudely formed cup-shaped stone water-troughs for the use of flocks and herds.

text: Camels

text: Middle East

text: Women

text: Middle East

text: Wells

text: Middle East

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: VV-81

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim VV81

title: VV-81


title: The castle of Beir Jibrîn, by starlight.  Arab musicians in the foreground. The one stringed instrument is the 'rabâb esh shâ'ir' or poet's viol; it is used as an accompaniment to chanted poetry. The double-reed pipe is the 'arghûl;' its longer reed serves as a drone or continuous bass.

text: Campfires

text: Castles & palaces

text: Gaza Strip

text: Gaza

text: Musical instruments

text: Gaza Strip

text: Gaza

text: Musicians

text: Gaza Strip

text: Gaza

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: VV-82

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim VV82

title: VV-82


title: Subterranean labyrinth of Tell Sandannah (Beit Jibrin). Showing on of the numerous circular dome-shaped caverns, with its winding rock-cut stairway.

text: Men

text: Middle East

text: Caves

text: Middle East

text: Torches

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: VV-83

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim VV83

title: VV-83


title: The Valley of Beit Jibrîn. With a distant view of the sea and sandy coast hills.  On the hillside on the left the entrance to one of the great caverns with which this district abounds is shown.  In the foreground a shepherd is sleeping; near to him are his dog and gun and double-reed pipe.

text: Dogs

text: Rifles

text: Architectural elements

text: Middle East

text: Sheep

text: Middle East

text: Shepherds

text: Middle East

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: VV-88

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim VV88

title: VV-88


title: The church of Saint Anne, Beit Jibrîn. Called by the Arabs El Kenîseh ; it stands at one thousand and seventy two feet above the sea, opposite to Tell Sandannah (Santa Hanna?). It was originally a Byzantine church, but was restored by the Crusaders.

text: Archaeological sites

text: Middle East

text: Anne (Mother of the Virgin Mary), Saint

authority: aat

text: churches

text: Middle East

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: VV-93

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim VV93

title: VV-93


title: VV-95

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim VV95

title: VV-95


title: Hebron.

namePart: Krausse, Alfred

text: Trees

text: Hebron

text: Sheep

text: West Bank

text: Hebron

text: Shepherds

text: Hebron

text: Cactus

text: West Bank

text: Hebron

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: Hebron.

text: Steel engravings


title: VV-98

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim VV98

title: VV-98


title: Valley of Berachah.  Jehosaphat's 'valley of blessing.' A wide open vale between Tekoa and the road from Hebron to Bethlehem. In the foreground there is a lime-kiln, and on the distant hill a ruined site, two thousand eight hundred and fifeen feet above the sea, called Khurbet Bereikuh.

text: Bees

text: Middle East

text: Kilns

text: Middle East

text: West Bank

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: E-34 (oversized)

text: Cuneiform

text: [was in box 6 too]

text: Oppenheim E34

title: E-34 (oversized)


title:
The
    wilderness of Judea. With a view of the Dead Sea (Bahr Lût) and the mountains of Moab at sunrise.

text: Dead Sea (Israel and Jordan)

text: Judaea, Wilderness of

text: Skeletons

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: G-33 (oversized)

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim G33

text: [was in box 9 too]

title: G-33 (oversized)


title: Teku'a, the site of Tekoa. Showing the remains of a Byzantine church, and its massive baptismal font of octagonal form.

text: Fonts

text: West Bank

text: Ruins

text: West Bank

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: J-1 (oversized)

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim J01

text: [was in box 14 too]

title: J-1 (oversized)


title: Râmat el Khulîl, the sight of Mamre. The camping place of Abraham.  It is a little way to the right of the old Roman road to Jerusalem, and is also known as Beit Khulîl, "the house of Abraham."

text: Bedouins

text: Trees

text: West Bank

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: J-5 (oversized)

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim J05

text: [was in box 14 too]

title: J-5 (oversized)


title: Wâdy et Tuffâh, commonly called the vale of Eschol. The peasants grouped in the foreground are under the southern branches  of Abraham's oak. In the distance the minaret of the great mosque of Sheikh 'Ali Bakka, Hebron, may be distinguished.

text: Women

text: West Bank

text: Wadis

text: West Bank

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: J-9 (oversized)

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim J09

text: [was in box 14 too]

title: J-9 (oversized)


title: Abraham's Oak, Hebron.  An ilex or evergreen holm oak (quercus pseudo-cocccifera). One of the lower branches was broken down by a heavy fall of snow in the winter of 1850.  It was cut up into logs and conveyed to Jerusalem. There were seven camel loads; one log was sent to England.

text: Abraham (Biblical patriarch)

text: Oaks

text: West Bank

text: Hebron

text: Tents

text: West Bank

text: Hebron

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: The pools of Hebron.  The chief pool is one hundred and thirty-two feet square, and twenty-one feet deep. There are stone steps leading to the bottom at each corner.  The other pool is eight-four feet in length and fifty-four feet in width.  The enclosed building in the distance, on the slope of the hill to the left, is the Quarantine station.

text: Buildings

text: Hebron

text: Reservoirs

text: West Bank

text: Hebron

text: Quarantines

text: West Bank

text: Hebron

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: KK-23 (oversized)

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim KK23

text: [was in box 15 too]

title: KK-23 (oversized)


title: L-24 (oversized)

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim L24

text: [was in box 16 too]

title: L-24 (oversized)


title: Ruined wely, Hebron.  On the rocky heights south of the city. Beyond the cemetary and the olive groves the Hâret esh Sheikh, the northern quarter of Hebron, appears.

text: Cemeteries

text: Hebron

text: Hebron

text: Tombs & sepulchral monuments

text: West Bank

text: Hebron

text: Tents

text: West Bank

text: Hebron

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: M-4 (oversized)

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim M04

text: [was in box 16 too]

title: M-4 (oversized)


title:
The
    Dead Sea, looking north-east from Engedi.  Anciently called the Salt Sea and the Sea of the Plain.  The name Dead Sea, now so familiar, does not occur in the Bible ; it was adopted by Greek and Roman writers in the second century of our era.  The Arabs call this sea Bahr Lût (Sea of Lot.)

text: Dead Sea (Israel and Jordan)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: M-5 (oversized)

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim M05

text: [was in box 16 too]

title: M-5 (oversized)


title:
The
    mountains of Moab from Engedi.  At this point the Dead Sea is about nine miles in width. There is a continuous beach of varying breadth along the shore.

text: Beaches

text: Middle East

text: Dead Sea (Israel and Jordan)

text: Mountains

text: Middle East

text: Trees

text: Middle East

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: M-6 (oversized)

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim M06

text: [was in box 16 too]

title: M-6 (oversized)


title: Engedi, the fountain of the Kid ('Ain Jidy). The sparkling limpid water is warm, rather sweet and impregnated with lime.  To the left there is an example of the remarkable esclepiad called in Arabic 'osher ; it bears a bladder-like fruit filled with long silky hairs, used by Arabs as tinder for their matchlocks.

text: Clothing & dress

text: Middle East

text: Fruit

text: Middle East

text: Springs

text: Middle East

text: Rocks

text: Middle East

text: Plants

text: Middle East

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: M-7 (oversized)

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim M07

text: [was in box 16 too]

title: M-7 (oversized)


title:
The
    Southern end of the Dead Sea from Engedi.  Showing the peninsula called El Lisân (the tongue) which may easily be mistaken for an island.

text: Cliffs

text: Middle East

text: Dead Sea (Israel and Jordan)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: M-8 (oversized)

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim M08

text: [was in box 16 too]

title: M-8 (oversized)


title: The cliffs of Engedi.  They form an very difficult pass, and the zigzag paths are not kept in repair.  The surface of the limestone rock is of marble-like smoothness, and a pale reddish tint is the prevailing color.

text: Buildings

text: Middle East

text: Cliffs

text: Middle East

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: M-11 (oversized)

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim M11

text: [was in box 16 too]

title: M-11 (oversized)


title: The wilderness of Engedi, where David and his followers lived among the 'rocks of the wild goats'. There are many caves in the hillside which might well serve as a place of refuge for fugitives and outlaws.

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: N-16 (oversized)

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim N16

text: [was in box 17 too]

title: N-16 (oversized)


title: Bîr es Seba': the site of Beersheba.  The ancient wells can still be traced, and two of them are serviceable ; but the city has ceased to exist.  In the distance may be seen an encampment of the Tiyâheh Arabs.  In the foreground a woman is asking  alms...

text: Beersheba (Israel)

text: Clothing & dress

text: Israel

text: Guides & scouts

text: Israel

text: Beersheba

text: Women

text: Israel

text: Tents

text: Israel

text: Pleading (Begging)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: ... of the artist's travelling attendants.

text: Wood engravings


title: N-29 (oversized)

text: Cuneiform

text: [was in box 18 too, but without indication "oversized"]

text: Oppenheim N29

title: N-29 (oversized)


title: N-30 (oversized)

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim N30

text: [was in box 18 too]

title: N-30 (oversized)


title: 'Ain el Weibeh, on the border of Edom, in the valley of El Jeib.  The name signifies "hole with water.: Many authorities regard this now deserted place as the site of Kadesh Barnea.

text: Camels

text: Middle East

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: O-35 (oversized)

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim O35

text: [was in box 19 too]

title: O-35 (oversized)


title: Rock-cut tomb or temple, Petra. Eighty-five feet in height. It is called by the Arabs El Khuzneh Far'on, 'The treasures of Pharoah,' which is said to be concealed in the urn-shaped finial at the summit. The portal leads into a lofty chamber twelve yards square.

text: Temples

text: Jordan

text: Petra (Extinct city)

text: Petra (Extinct city)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: ... yards square.

text: Wood engravings


title: R-15 (oversized)

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim R15

title: R-15 (oversized)


title: Detached tombs, Petra.  Isolated masses of rock, from fifteen to twenty feet square.  In one of them there is a small sepulchral chamber.  The background represents the excavations in the cliffs opposite to the amphitheatre.

text: Archaeological sites

text: Petra (Extinct city)

text: Tombs & sepulchral monuments

text: Jordan

text: Petra (Extinct city)

text: Snakes

text: Petra (Exinct city)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: R-16 (oversized)

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim R16

title: R-16 (oversized)


title:
The
    rock-hewn amphitheatre, Petra. Thirty-three tiers of seats rise one above the other, and above the seats there are chambers hewn in rock.  The brook of 'Ain Mûsa, bordered with verdure, flows across the arena.

text: Ampitheaters

text: Petra (Extinct city)

text: Petra (Extinct city)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: S-22 (oversized)

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim S22

text: was in Box 22 as missing; seems found in Box 28

title: S-22 (oversized)


title: Entrance to the valley of Petra

namePart: Bertrand, C. (fl. 188-)

text: Canyons

text: Petra (Extinct city)

text: Men

text: Petra (Extinct city)

text: Rock formations

text: Jordan

text: Petra (Extinct city)

text: Petra (Extinct city)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: Entrance to the valley of Petra

text: Wood engravings


title: S-23 (oversized)

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim S23

title: S-23 (oversized)


title: Mount Hor. The scene of the death of Aaron, called by the Arabs Jebel Harûn, "the Mount of Aaron." Its highest point is about four thousand three hundred and sixty feet above the sea level.

text: Mountains

text: Middle East

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: TT-1 (oversized)

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim TT01

text: [was in box 22 too]

title: TT-1 (oversized)


title: TT-2 (oversized)

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim TT02

text: [was in box 22 too]

title: TT-2 (oversized)


title: Rock-cut tombs, Petra.  Used as dwelling houses by local tribes in cold or wet weather.

text: Cliffs

text: Petra (Extinct city)

text: Tombs & sepulchral monuments

text: Jordan

text: Petra (Extinct city)

text: Petra (Extinct city)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: O-40 (damaged case)

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim O40

title: O-40 (damaged case)


title: Cliffs of the Sîk, Petra.  Showing the western outlet of the great defile opposite to the rock-cut amphitheatre represented on page 216.

text: Cliffs

text: Petra (Extinct city)

text: Petra (Extinct city)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title:
The
    Dier, Petra. An isolated building on a lofty eminence north-west of the valley of Petra.  It faces Mount Hor.

text: Buildings

text: Petra (Extinct city)

text: Petra (Extinct city)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: S-5 (damaged case)

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim S05

title: S-5 (damaged case)


title: Jezîrat Far'on, the Isle of Pharaoh.  At the head of the Gulf of 'Akabah, as seen from the western shore.  The castle which crowns it was built by the Crusaders; the mosque and other Saracenic structures are attributed to Saladin.

text: Men

text: Middle East

text: Rifles

text: Aqaba, Gulf of

text: Islands

text: Middle East

text: Rock formations

text: Middle East

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: S-6 (damaged case)

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim S06

title: S-6 (damaged case)


title: Letter of admission to the convent of St. Catherine.  Formerly travellers were drawn up into the convent through the pent-house shown above; now however, if a letter thus received is found satisfactory they are admitted by a side door.

text: Hoisting machinery

text: Camels

text: Egypt

nameType: corporate

text: Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: K-1

text: Cuneiform

title: K-1


title: A peep into one of the courts of the convent. Showing a rude flight of steps leading to the upper chambers.  On the left the summits of the belfry of the church and the minaret of the mosque may be seen.

text: Cats

text: Bell towers

text: Egypt

text: Mount Sinai

text: Minarets

text: Egypt

authority: tgn

text: Sinai, Mount

text: Monks

text: Egypt

text: Sinai, Mount

text: Stairways

text: Egypt

text: Sinai, Mount

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: K-2

text: Cuneiform

title: K-2


title:
The
    upper chambers of the convent.  With the peaks of Jebel Mûsa in the background.

text: Buildings

text: Egypt

text: Mount Sinai

text: Cats

text: Egypt

text: Stairways

text: Egypt

text: Sinai, Mount

text: Sinai, Mount (Egypt)

text: Arches

text: Egypt

text: Sinai, Mount

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: K-3

text: Cuneiform

title: K-3


title: View from the north-eastern galleries. Showing the lofty chamber of the south corner, A monk at a lower window is striking a piece of suspended iron with a hammer, to call the fraternity to prayers in one of the numerous chapels.

text: Monks

text: Egypt

text: Sinai, Mount

text: Sinai, Mount (Egypt)

text: Architectural elements

text: Egypt

text: Sinai, Mount

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: K-4

text: Cuneiform

title: K-4


title: K-5

text: Cuneiform

title: K-5


title: Interior of the church of the convent of Saint Catherine.  The framework of the door leading into the nave is richly decorated ; its panels are embellished with enamels. From the ceiling hang numerous silver lamps and ostrich eggs suspended by long cord.

text: Lamps

text: Candlesticks

text: Icons

text: Furniture

text: Candles

text: Interiors

text: Egypt

text: Sinai, Mount

text: Sweeping & dusting

text: Egypt

text: Sinai, Mount

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: K-6

text: Cuneiform

title: K-6


title: The crescent and the cross. The belfry of the church and the minaret of the mosque,  standing so near to each other within convent walls, produce a singular effect. and strange to say the former is of recent construction, while the latter dates from an earlier period.

namePart: Quartley, Frederick William (1808-1874)

text: Bell towers

text: Egypt

text: Mount Sinai

text: Minarets

text: Egypt

text: Sinai, Mount

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: K-7

text: Cuneiform

title: K-7


title: Gate of St. Stephen the Porter.  An archway on the assent to Jebel Mûsa. where pilgrims formerly confessed before they visited the sacred heights.

text: Clothing & dress

text: Egypt

text: Mount Sinai

text: Stairways

text: Egypt

text: Sinai, Mount

text: Arches

text: Egypt

text: Sinai, Mount

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: K-9

text: Cuneiform

title: K-9


title: K-10

text: Cuneiform

title: K-10


title: Well in the garden of the convent of St. Catherine. This garden is north-west of the convent, and is enclosed by a high wall.  The lofty chamber at the north corner of the convent is shown above.

text: Gardens

text: Egypt

text: Sinai, Mount

text: Wells

text: Egypt

text: Sinai, Mount

text: Trees

text: Egypt

text: Sinai, Mount

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: K-19

text: Cuneiform

title: K-19


title: Eastern tower of the convent of Saint Catherine, and part of the convent garden, with the plain of Er Râhah and the narrow pass called Nukb Hâwy in the distance.

text: Walls

text: Egypt

text: Sinai, Mount

text: Towers

text: Egypt

text: Sinai, Mount

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: H-39

text: Cuneiform

title: H-39


title: Râs Atâkah. Râs is the same as our "nase" or "naze."  This bold promontory. south of Suez, running out from Jebel Atâkah, on the western shore of the Red Sea, comes into every view of Suez.

text: Red Sea

text: Sailboats

text: Middle East

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: QQ-1

text: Cuneiform

title: QQ-1


title: Jebel Atâkah

text: Red Sea

text: Shells (Animal)

text: Ataqa Mountains (Egypt)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: Jebel Atâkah

text: Wood engravings


title: QQ-2

text: Cuneiform

title: QQ-2


title: Under the palms, 'Ayun Músa. 'It is a strange spot- this plot of tamarisks' (and palms) 'with its seventeen wells - literally an island in the desert and now used as the Richmond of Suez- a comparison which chiefly serves to show what a place Suez itself must be!'  -- (Stanley)

text: Bodies of water

text: Egypt

text: Suez

text: Palms

text: Egypt

text: Suez

text: Wells

text: Egypt

text: Suez

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: QQ-3

text: Cuneiform

title: QQ-3


title: Gulf of Suez, looking out from 'Ayún Músa. These complicated wheels and spars are a mixture of Egyptian shádoof and sâkiyeh (water-wheel), by which the precious water is raised from the wells.

text: Trees

text: Egypt

text: Suez

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: QQ-4

text: Cuneiform

title: QQ-4


title: 'Ayún Músa.  From this spot one probably commences the real desert journey.

text: Palms

text: Egypt

text: Camels

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: YY-3

text: Cuneiform

title: YY-3


title: Red Sea, as seen during the first day's march in the desert.  The proper adjustment of the load of the camel's back requires much skill. If it is unevenly balanced the poor beast suffers a good deal and begins grumbling until things are made ship-shape.

text: Red Sea

text: Camels

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: A halt in the desert. The Bedawin never trouble themselves with tents when on a journey.

text: Bedouins

text: Clothing & dress

text: Egypt

text: Camels

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: YY-13

text: Cuneiform

title: YY-13


title: YY-17

text: Cuneiform

title: YY-17


title: In the wilderness of Shur. A small encampment of Bedawin, probably of the Terabin tribe, whose territory extends as far as Gaza.

text: Tents

text: Egypt

text: Bedouins

text: Deserts

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.


title: X-2

text: Cuneiform

title: X-2


title: Sand-storm in the desert. The dreaded khamseen (wind and sand storm) very frequently overtakes the traveller in the region between 'Ayún Músa and Wâdy Amârah.  Dean Stanley, Neibhur, Miss Martineau all encountered it here.

text: Camels

text: Egypt

text: Deserts

text: Egypt

text: Skeletons

text: Sandstorms

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Noorian-1

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim Noorian01

title: Noorian-1


title: 'Ain Hawwârah. This may be the spring "Marah" of Exodus xv.23.

text: Camels

text: Egypt

text: Deserts

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Wâdy Amârah.  Of Wâdy Amârah, some forty miles away from Ayún Músa, Professor Palmer says, 'There is no other water but this (at Bir Abu Suweirah, twelve miles distant) in or near Wâdy Amârah.' A proof that this wâdy is not to be identified with the Marah of the Bible.

text: Camels

text: Egypt

text: Deserts

text: Egypt

text: Wadis

text: Egypt

text: Rock formations

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Entrance to Wâdy Gharandel.

text: Rifles

text: Clothing & dress

text: Egypt

text: Wadis

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: Entrance to Wâdy Gharandel.

text: Wood engravings


title: The springs in Wâdy Gharandel, probably the "Elim" of the Bible.

text: Camels

text: Egypt

text: Bodies of water

text: Egypt

text: Wadis

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: The cliffs of Jebel Hammâm Farún. The altitude given in the "Ordinance survey map" for Jebel Hammâm Farún is 1,567 feet.

text: Cliffs

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Jebel Hammâm Farún. The hot springs bubble up at intervals from the sand, and also issue from several features in the rocks.  The temperature of the water is 160º.

text: Clothing & dress

text: Egypt

text: Beaches

text: Egypt

text: Mountains

text: Egypt

text: Springs

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Rock foms in Wâdy Hamr. This valley leads up to Jebel et Tih.

text: Camels

text: Egypt

text: Wadis

text: Egypt

text: Rock formations

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Wâdy Useit. One can go down to the sea-shore by this valley, but the path is hardly passable for camels.  There are clumps of stunted palms every here and there, and some brackish water.

text: Palms

text: Egypt

text: Camels

text: Egypt

text: Wadis

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Wâdy Taiyebeh. "The valley of good" (water and pasture). Through this valley most probably the Israelites journeyed to their encampment by the Red Sea.

text: Mountains

text: Egypt

text: Wadis

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Wâdy Taiyebeh, with the Red Sea in sight,  The lower part of the valley is very picturesque.  The horizontal strata of the cliffs and their bright coloring make a deep impression on one from the desert.

text: Red Sea

text: Camels

text: Egypt

text: Beaches

text: Egypt

text: Rock formations

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: The plain El  Markeiyeh. At the mouth of Wâdy Taiyebeh, looking south and south-east towards the mountains of the Serbál group.  The plain takes its name from the long white range of chalk hills called El Markhâ.

text: Camels

text: Egypt

text: Mountains

text: Egypt

text: Wadis

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Near the mouth of the Wâdy Taibeiyeh, looking north west.

text: Bodies of water

text: Egypt

text: Cliffs

text: Egypt

text: Wadis

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.


title: Râs Abu Zenimeh. On a low promontory running out somewhat farther into the sea is placed the tomb of the saint.  Unless it is rough the camels are made to take to the water instead of climbing the cliffs.

text: Camels

text: Egypt

text: Bodies of water

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Jebel el Markhâ. This ridge of limestone, about nine hundred feet high, separates the two plains of El Markheyeh and El Markhâ.

text: Clothing & dress

text: Egypt

text: Camels

text: Egypt

text: Bodies of water

text: Egypt

text: Beaches

text: Egypt

text: Cliffs

text: Egypt

text: Mountains

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: The plain of El Markhâ. This weary plain of flinty barenness slopes gently to the sea, the glare from which and from the limestone cliff is almost overpowering.

text: Cliffs

text: Egypt

text: Plains

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Rocks in the ravine of Sarâbit el Khâdim. And a natural gallery in the same ravine.  Wind and storm have worn these sandstone rocks into the most fantastic shapes.

text: Bodies of water

text: Egypt

text: Canyons

text: Egypt

text: Sarâbît al-Khâdim Site (Egypt)

text: Rock formations

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title:
The
    stelae and ruins at Sârabít el Khâdim.  The latest of these stelae date from Ramese IV, of the twentieth century.

text: Egypt

text: Egyptian language

text: Writing, Hieroglyphic

text: Stele (Archaeology)

text: Sarâbît al-Khâdim Site (Egypt)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title:
The
    rocks at Sarâbít el Khâdim ; and the temple enclosure. There are two temples, of different dates.  The one not shown here is formed of two chambers excavated in the rock, having a walled continuation in front.

text: Archaeological sites

text: Egypt

text: Cliffs

text: Egypt

text: Sarâbît al-Khâdim Site (Egypt)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: El Hesweh, Wâdy Feirán.

namePart: Brandard, Edward Paxman (1819-1898)

authority: ulan

text: Palms

text: Egypt

text: Camels

text: Egypt

text: Wadis

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: El Hesweh, Wâdy Feirán.

text: Steel engravings


title: Wâdy Sidreh. The Wâdies Mukatteb, Sidreh and Igné all debouch into the Seib Sidreh.

text: Rivers

text: Egypt

text: Mountains

text: Egypt

text: Wadis

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: The road up Nagb Buderah. By this pass travellers usually approach Mukatteb from Egypt.

text: Camels

text: Egypt

text: Mountains

text: Egypt

text: Rock formations

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: The outlet of Wâdy Nagb Buderah, in the Seih Sidreh. The Acacia seyal is the shittah or shittim tree of the Bible.  The "seyal" is the only timber tree of any size in the Arabian desert.

text: Trees

text: Egypt

text: Clothing & dress

text: Egypt

text: Camels

text: Egypt

text: Deserts

text: Egypt

text: Wadis

text: Egypt

text: Skeletons

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Wâdy Shellâl, "Vally of the Cataracts." This valley bears, both in name and aspect, ever trace of wintery cascades.  It leads up to the pass of Nagb Buderah.

text: Tents

text: Egypt

text: Women

text: Egypt

text: Bedouins

text: Children and adults

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Views from the tourquoise mines of Maghârah.  Wâdy Maghârah is another name for Wâdy Igné (properly Gena). The mines are high up on the left side as one ascends the narrow wâdy.

text: Cliffs

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: The cliffs, mines and Egyptian tablets of Maghârah.  These mines were worked more than four thousand years ago.

text: Hieroglyphics

text: Cliffs

text: Egypt

text: mining

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Wâdy Mukhateb, the "written valley" or "valley of inscriptions." The celebrated Sinaitic inscriptions abound in this valley on the right-hand side as one passes down.

text: Hieroglyphics

text: Clothing & dress

text: Egypt

text: Camels

text: Egypt

text: Wadis

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Wâdy Maghâra, Sinai.

namePart: Cousen, Charles (1819-1889)

text: Tents

text: Egypt

text: Campfires

text: Camels

text: Egypt

text: Wadis

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: Wâdy Maghâra, Sinai.

text: Wood engravings


title: Wâdy Mukatteb.  The strange shapes of the weather-worn sandstone rocks are almost as noteworthy as the Sinaitic inscriptions.  In the inscriptions represented in this illustration the camel occurs frequently.

text: Hieroglyphics

text: Camels

text: Egypt

text: Wadis

text: Egypt

text: Rock formations

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Wâdy Feirân.  The rock supposed to have been struck by Moses is in the right-hand forground.  The Arabs call it Hesy el Khattatin.

text: Clothing & dress

text: Egypt

text: Camels

text: Egypt

text: Wadis

text: Egypt

text: Rock formations

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Jebel el Benât, "Girls Mountain." Stands some seven miles to the north of Serbâl.

text: Trees

text: Egypt

text: Mountains

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Wâdy Feirân. Acacia seyal is the same as the shittim-tree.  The Arabs lop these trees for charcoal, &c., in the cruellest and most unscientific manner.

text: Trees

text: Egypt

text: Clothing & dress

text: Egypt

text: Camels

text: Egypt

text: Wadis

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Jebel Tâhúneh, the "Mountiain of the windmill." Opposite Serbâl, on the north side of the Feirân valley.  The ruined city Pheran, or Feiran, lies at its foot.

text: Trees

text: Egypt

text: Mountains

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: A spring in Wâdy Feirân.  To the Bedawin of Sinai, Feirân realizes paradise.

text: Palms

text: Egypt

text: Sunrises & sunsets

text: Wadis

text: Egypt

text: Typha

text: Springs

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Mt. Serbál - From Wády Feirán.

namePart: Bradshaw, Samuel, engraver

text: Palms

text: Egypt

text: Tents

text: Egypt

text: Bedouins

text: Camels

text: Egypt

text: Children and adults

text: Egypt

text: Wadis

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: Mt. Serbál - From Wády Feirán.

text: Steel engravings


title: Wâdy Feirân. Professor Palmer describes the walk through Wâdy Feirân, with its shade of palms, tamarisksm and sidr-trees, and with its running water, as one of the most delightful in Sinai.

text: Palms

text: Egypt

text: Saddles

text: Sinai (Egypt)

text: Mountains

text: Egypt

text: Wadis

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: 'El Maharrad,' Pharan (Feirân). These ruins are all that remain of the great church and old monastic establishment of Pharan. The Bedawin grow small patches of maize, bearded wheat, and tobacco about here.

text: Sinai (Egypt)

text: Archaeological sites

text: Sinai

text: Wheat

text: Egypt

text: Scythes

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Tamarisk- tree, Wâdy Feirân, Sinai.  "And the sleep in the dried river channel, where bulrushes tell/ That the water was wont to go warbling so softly and well." -- Browining's "Saul."

text: Trees

text: Egypt

text: Sinai (Egypt)

text: Clothing & dress

text: Egypt

text: Sinai

text: Sleeping

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Alluvial desposits, Wâdy Feirân.  These strange deposits serve as a "meter" to measure the height to which the Feirân streams may once have reached.  At Philae, &c., in the valley of the Nile, the same deposits may be observed.

text: Sinai (Egypt)

text: Wadis

text: Egypt

text: Rock formations

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title:
El
    Buwieb, the "gate" of Feirân.  A narrow passage between the rocks, about one hundred feet by twenty long.

text: Trees

text: Egypt

text: Sinai (Egypt)

text: Camels

text: Egypt

text: Wadis

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Beidhat umm Tâkhah, a neighbor of Mount Serbál.  In the foreground is the usual scene of preparation for a night's bivouac.

text: Campfires

text: Camels

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Tarfah or tamarisk grove, Wâdy es Sheikh. This fine grove is called Tarfat el Gidarin.  The wâdy itself cuts through the granite wall which fences in Sinai.

text: Bedouins

text: Trees

text: Egypt

text: Sinai (Egypt)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Hajar el Lagweh, "The speaking stone." A rock covered with Sinaitic inscriptions in Wâdy Berrah, "The valley of the passer-out." From this valley you pass into a more open country and leave the sandstone district.

text: Tents

text: Egypt

text: Hieroglyphics

text: Wadis

text: Egypt

text: Rock formations

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Magâd en Nebí Músa, 'Seat of the prophet Moses.' This large detached rock, which from one point looks something like an arm-chair, occurs in the gorge of El Watiyeh. Near here is pointed out the place where Moses' sheep grazed.

text: Campfires

text: Sinai (Egypt)

text: Camels

text: Egypt

text: Men

text: Egypt

text: Rock formations

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title:
A
    recollection of Sinai and the mountains of the pass of the wind.  "On Horeb, with Elijah, let us lie/ Where all around, on mountain, sand, and sky,/ God's chariot-wheels have left distinctest trace." -- Keble.

text: Sinai (Egypt)

text: Camels

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Arabs.  These Arabs are Towarah, who generally prefer turban and fez to gailey - striped kefiyeh.  One of them has in his hand the head of an ibex (bedan).

text: Arabs

text: Campfires

text: Clothing & dress

text: Egypt

text: Sinai (Egypt)

text: Camels

text: Egypt

text: Ibex

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Wâdy Sh'reich. One of the peaks in the Wâdy Sh'reich is called Jebel Abu Mahrúreh, "The thunder-stricken mountain," a large portion of its summit having been detached by a thunderbolt.

text: Cooking utensils

text: Campfires

text: Sinai (Egypt)

text: Camels

text: Egypt

text: Outdoor cookery

text: Egypt

text: Wadis

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Near the mouth of Wâdy Sh'reich. The scene of the worship of the golden calf was placed by early tradition at the mouth of this valley.

text: Palms

text: Sinai (Egypt)

text: Camels

text: Egypt

text: Wadis

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Wâdy T'lâh, Mount Sinai. This wâdy runs parallel with the plain Er Râhah. but flows in a contrary direction.  It is marvellously beautiful and picturesque.

text: Palms

text: Egypt

text: Trees

text: Egypt

text: Wadis

text: Egypt

text: Sinai, Mount (Egypt)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Wâdy Katarína, Sinai. This rocky glen, which goes by the name Shagg Músa, leads up from the orchards and gardens of the Convent of El Arab'in.

text: Trees

text: Egypt

text: Sinai (Egypt)

text: Wadis

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Cliffs of Jebel Katarína.  Of the three peaks of the Jebel Katarina cluster, Jebel Zebir is the central.  Jebel Katarina lies half a mile to the north of it; and Jebal Abu Rumail a mile to the south.

text: Sinai (Egypt)

text: Cliffs

text: Egypt

text: Ibex

text: Mountains

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Wády Sho'eib -- Jethro's valley.

text: Crosses

text: Sinai (Egypt)

text: Buildings

text: Egypt

text: Wadis

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: Wády Sho'eib -- Jethro's valley.

text: Steel engravings


title: Convent of the Arba'in (of the forty), Wâdy Lejâ.  The situation of this convent is most secluded and picturesque.  The celebrated 'Moses' Rock' loses its claim to notoriety, if Rephidim be located in Wâdy Feirán.

text: Inscriptions

text: Wadis

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Mountains at the head of Wâdy Lejâ.

text: Sinai (Egypt)

text: Mountains

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: Mountains at the head of Wâdy Lejâ.

text: Wood engravings


title: Gardens near the mouth of Wâdy Lejâ.  The winding road seen in the cliffs leads up to Jebel Tiniyeh, where are the remains of the half-finished palace of the late 'Abbas Pasha.

text: Ruins

text: Egypt

text: Gardens

text: Egypt

text: Sinai (Egypt)

text: Mountains

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Bedawín encampment, Wâdy Sebíyeh, Sinai. This valley has been  mentioned as a likely camping ground for the Israelites, because of the view afforded of the summit of Jebel Músa.  There is no open space, however, for a great multitude.

text: Tents

text: Egypt

text: Bedouins

text: Sinai (Egypt)

text: Wadis

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Jebel Músa from the south, Sinai.  Wâdy Seba'iyeh, through which the way passes from Jebel Umm Shomer, offers the traveller a splendid view of the steep southern extremity of Jebel Músa.

text: Camels

text: Egypt

text: Mountains

text: Egypt

text: Wadis

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: The chapel and grotto of Elijah, Jebel Músa. This gigantic cypress is one of the world-famous trees. In Niebuhr's time there were two of them.

text: Trees

text: Egypt

text: Buildings

text: Egypt

text: Chapels

text: Egypt

text: Caves

text: Elijah (Biblical prophet)

text: Goats

text: Egypt

text: Shofar

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Looking east from Râs Sufsâfeh, Sinai.  In the smaller illustration is represented the summit of Jebel Mûsa, with the chapel and less conspicuous mosque.

namePart: Palmer, William James

text: Mosques

text: Egypt

text: Crosses

text: Sinai (Egypt)

text: Chapels

text: Egypt

text: Mountains

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Ma'yan Músa, the spring of Moses, Sinai.  At this spring, rising up in a cool shady rock-grotto, the Bedawin believe Moses to have watered Jethro's rocks.

namePart: Wilson, Charles William, Sir (1836-1905)

text: Caves

text: Springs

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: C-1 (oversized)

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim C01

text: was in Box 1 too

title: C-1 (oversized)


title: Jebel Sûna, from Sikket Syednâ Músa, "The path of our lord Moses." The path is very steep and difficult ; it reaches the basin at the back of Râs Sufsâfeh after a climb of one thousand five hundred feet.

namePart: Woodward, John Douglas (1846-1924)

text: Mountains

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: G-34 (oversized)

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim G34

text: was in Box 9 too

title: G-34 (oversized)


title: Âs Sufsâfeh (Mount Sinai) and the plain of Râhah (Rest).  Beyond the convent is seen Jebel Moneijâh. The summit of Jebel Músa is hidden behind the overwelming mass of Râs Sufsâfeh.

text: Bedouins

text: Mountains

text: Egypt

text: Sinai, Mount (Egypt)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Defile of the Jebel Tíh.  The long white range of the Tíh mountains, mostly of the same average height, forms the southern and south-eastern boundary of the great 'wilderness of the forty year's wanderings.'

text: Mountains

text: Egypt

text: Tih Plateau (Egypt)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Jebel ed Deir, Sinai.

text: Bedouins

text: Sinai (Egypt)

text: Mountains

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: Jebel ed Deir, Sinai.

text: Wood engravings


title: Suez.  The approach to the Suez canal from the south is by an artificially deepened channel in the gulf.  A stone pier one mile and three-quarters in length, erected on a sand-bank, runs from Suez to the entrance of this channel.

text: Suez (Egypt)

text: Sailboats

text: Egypt

text: Suez

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Lake Timsâh, midway in the Suez Canal.  It is traversed by two artificial channels for the passage of large vessels.

text: Buildings

text: Egypt

text: Suez

text: Lakes & ponds

text: Egypt

text: Suez

text: Sailboats

text: Egypt

text: Suez

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Mahsamah.  In the Wâdy Tûmîlât, between Tell-el-Maskhûtah (Pithom) and  Tell-el-Kebîr.

text: Bodies of water

text: Egypt

text: Wadis

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: A village threshing floor.  Showing a primitive threshing-sledge drawn by buffaloes, and a peasant separating the chaff from the grain with a winnowing fork.  The huts of the village are formed of mud and sun-dried bricks, roofed with palm tree rafters thatched with stalks of Indian corn, palm leaves, and old mats.  The dark patches on the mud walls represent cakes of fuel made of dung and straw ; when thoroughly dry they are stored for use.

text: Palms

text: Egypt

text: Buffaloes

text: Egypt

text: Buildings

text: Egypt

text: Threshing

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: O-38 (oversized)

text: Cuneiform

title: O-38 (oversized)


title: Brickmaking.  A wooden frame is placed in position, ready to receive the clay.

text: Baskets

text: Palms

text: Egypt

text: Women

text: Egypt

text: Men

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: O-39 (oversized)

text: Cuneiform

title: O-39 (oversized)


title: A wayside well. Shaded by a fine specimen of the Acacia Nilotica.  The water is raised by means of jars attached to a wheel, the sâkiyeh.

text: Mosques

text: Egypt

text: Palms

text: Egypt

text: Women

text: Egypt

text: Wells

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: R-18 (oversized)

text: Cuneiform

title: R-18 (oversized)


title: Obelisk of Heliopolis. Formed of red granite ; it has been so much encroached upon by deposits of mud that a considerable portion of its base is now covered.

text: Obelisks

text: Egypt

text: Hieroglyphics

text: Camels

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: T-3 (oversized)

text: Cuneiform

text: 3T /Schwartz 05

text: [Schwartz : no size indicated]

text: Lagash II

title: T-3 (oversized)


title: The "Virgin's tree."  At the time of the inauguration of the Suez Canal this tree was presented to the Empress Eugénie by the Khedive.  The garden in which it stands is watered by means of a double sakîyeh supplied from a reservoir fed by springs.

namePart: Johnstone, J.

text: Women

text: Egypt

text: Trees

text: Egypt

text: Veils

text: Eating & drinking

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: T-5 (oversized)

text: Cuneiform

title: T-5 (oversized)


title:
The
    gate of victory. (Bâb-en-Nasr).  The easternmost of the northern gates of Cairo. It was built in the reign of the Fâtimy khalif El-Mustansir, A.H. 480 (A.D. 1087).

text: Cattle

text: Egypt

text: Cairo (Egypt)

text: Camels

text: Egypt

text: City walls

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: X-1 (oversized)

text: Cuneiform

text: 1X /Schwartz 11

text: [Schwartz : no size indicated]

text: Lagash II

title: X-1 (oversized)


title: X-3 (oversized)

text: Cuneiform

text: Old Babylonian

title: X-3 (oversized)


title:
A
    seller of lanterns.  In houses provided with latticed windows only, candles are usually sheltered by lanterns like those suspended above.  One such lantern, with two or three wax candles in it, placed on the ground or on a low stool in a central position, is considered sufficient to light a large saloon.

text: Cairo (Egypt)

text: Lanterns

text: Clothing & dress

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Stores & shops

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: X-4 (oversized)

text: Cuneiform

text: Old Babylonian

title: X-4 (oversized)


title: Sebîl, or street fountain.  Supplied from a cistern below which is filled during the inundation of the Nile.  The upper chamber, with its columns and double veranda, is a school-room.

text: Cairo (Egypt)

text: Balconies

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Buildings

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Fountains

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Carpet bazaar.  There are two carpet bazaars in the Khân-El-Khalîly. The larger one is established in the picturesque court of a cuilding of the thirteenth century, a portion of which is shown above.  Here may be seen carpets from India and Persia and from every part of the Turkish empire.

namePart: Dana, William Jay (1839-1913)

text: Bazaars

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Cairo (Egypt)

text: Shoes

text: Architectural elements

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Boys

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Rugs

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: In the shoe bazaar. This was formerly a school, an interesting building now in a very dilapadated condition. The gateway, however, is still preserved.

text: Bazaars

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Shoes

text: Architectural elements

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Boys

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title:
The
    armourer's market.  In this street, there are some good specimens of meshrebíehs (latticed windows).

text: Bazaars

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Mosques

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Cairo (Egypt)

text: Minarets

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Tomb- mosque of El- Ashraf Barsabay.  In the Eastern Cemetary, or so-called "Tomb of the Khalifs."  It is constructed of alternate courses of pale red and yellowish white limestone.  Barsabay died A.D. 1438

text: Mosques

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Cairo (Egypt)

text: Tombs & sepulchral monuments

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: 2*

text: Cuneiform

title: 2*


title: Fountains in the court of the mosque of Sultan Hasan.  The recess beyond it on the eastern side of the court is the sanctuary.  The arch is ninety feet in height.

namePart: Lauderbach, James W.

text: Mosques

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Arches

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Fountains

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Court of the tomb-mosque of Barkûk.  In the Eastern Cemetary.  A fountain for ablution, shaded by two trees, stands in the centre of the court, which is surrounded by a colonnade.  The sanctuary occupies the space between two fine domes, one of which is shown above.  Barkûk died in A.D. 1399.

text: Mosques

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Tombs & sepulchral monuments

text: Fountains

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Prayer

text: Islam

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: 3*

text: Cuneiform

title: 3*


title: Pulpit of the tomb-mosque of Barkûk.  Presented by the Kaït Bay.  It is  carved of hard limestone, and is one of the most beautiful existing specimens of Arabian sculpture.

text: Interiors

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Mosques

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Tombs & sepulchral monuments

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Pulpits

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: 4*

text: Cuneiform

title: 4*


title: At school.  Small wooden boards painted white serve instead of books, the lessons being written on them in ink by the schoolmaster, and renewed from time to time.  The children, seated on the floor, read or recite the appointed lesson all at once, while rocking themselves to and fro or swaying from side to side.

text: Cairo (Egypt)

text: Children

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Teachers

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Schools

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: 5

text: Cuneiform

text: Eames 05*

text: Drehem, Ur III

title: 5


title: Tomb-mosque of Kaît Bay.  In the Eastern Cemetary.  It is constructed of alternate courses of pale red and yellowish white limestone.  Kaît Bay died A.D. 1496.

namePart: Hartley, J. Q.

text: Mosques

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Cairo (Egypt)

text: Campfires

text: Eating & drinking

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Tombs & sepulchral monuments

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Valley of the Nile and pyramids.  From Mount Mukattam.  Beyond the picturesque cluster of the "Tomb of the Memlûks" we see the ancient aqueduct stretching across the mounds of rubbish which form the southern moundary of Cairo.

text: Mamelukes

text: Cairo (Egypt)

text: Donkeys

text: Egypt

text: Tombs & sepulchral monuments

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Pyramids

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: 6[*]

text: Cuneiform

title: 6[*]


title: 7*

text: Cuneiform

title: 7*


title:
The
    citadel from the "Tombs of the Memlûks."  The Great Mosque of Mohammed 'Aly with is tall minarets and clister of somes dtands within the Citadel, and is the most conspicuous land-mark of Cairo.

text: Mosques

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Mamelukes

text: Cairo (Egypt)

text: Tombs & sepulchral monuments

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Ruins

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: One of the 'Tombs of the Memlûks.' On Mount Mukattam. In the foreground is the musattah, or camel-litter, ordinarily used by pilgrims.

text: Mamelukes

text: Litters

text: Camels

text: Egypt

text: Tombs & sepulchral monuments

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: 8*

text: Cuneiform

title: 8*


title: Tombs of the Memlûks." The whole of this region is dotted with gravestones and is still used as a burial ground.

text: Mamelukes

text: Towers

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Tombs & sepulchral monuments

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: 9*

text: Cuneiform

title: 9*


title: 10

text: Cuneiform

title: 10


title: Mosques on Mukattam. Caverns and quarries are numerous on the slopes of the Mukattam hills, which are of nummulite foundation and extremely rich in fossils.

text: Mosques

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Cairo (Egypt)

text: Madînat al-Muqattam (Cairo, Egypt)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: On the canal (El Khalîg). Ths water-way, which runs through Cairo, was formerly navigable at high Nile.

namePart: Cooper, J. (fl. 19th cent.)

text: Cairo (Egypt)

text: Buildings

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Canals

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: 11[*]

text: Cuneiform

title: 11[*]


title: A water-wheel (sâkiyeh) on the canal.  When the creaking wooden wheels are in motion the earthenware jars, strung to ropes made of palm fibre, revolve, alternately dripping into the water and emptying themselves into a trough connected with a reservoir.

text: Canals

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Women

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Waterwheels

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: 12

text: Cuneiform

text: Eames 12*

text: Drehem, Ur III

title: 12


title: Pyramids of Gizeh.

text: Palms

text: Egypt

text: Pyramids of Giza (Egypt)

text: Jîzah (Egypt)

text: Pyramids

text: Egypt

text: Jîzah

text: Bodies of water

text: Egypt

text: Jizah

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: Pyramids of Gizeh.

text: Steel engravings


title: 13

text: Cuneiform

text: Umma, Ur III

text: Eames 13*

title: 13


title: In a Cairo garden.  Where the date-palm, the Cactus optunia, almond-trees, acacias, and sycamores, the common trees of the country, flourish.  During the reign of the Khedive Isma'îl about two hundred different kinds of trees, chiefly of East Indian origin, were planted in great numbers in the new parks and gardens of Cairo.

text: Gardens

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Cactus

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Donkeys

text: Egypt

text: Couples

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Trees

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: 14

text: Cuneiform

text: Umma, Ur III

title: 14


title: 15

text: Cuneiform

title: 15


title: A suburban cafe.  the two men on the bench in the foreground are playing a game called mankalah; small pebbles are placed, according to certain rules, in hemispherical holes in a board.  This game exercises the powers of calculation; and it is often played at cafes.  The loser is expected to pay not only for the coffee drunk by himself and his antagonist, but by the spectators of the game.

text: Cafes

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Coffee

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Games

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Towers

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: 16

text: Cuneiform

title: 16


title: Street in Masr El-Atîkah. The man in the foreground is selling water flavored with orange blossom.

text: Streets

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Architectural elements

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Misr al-Qadîmah (Cairo, Egypt)

text: Peddlers

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: 17

text: Cuneiform

text: Drehem, Ur III

text: Eames 17*

title: 17


title: Bazaar in Bûlâk.  Bûlâk is the river harbor of Cairo ; here goods from Upper Egypt, Nubia, and central Africa are landed, and the bazaars are often crowded with natives of distant provinces during the busy season.

text: Bazaars

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Cairo (Egypt)

text: Palms

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: 18*

text: Cuneiform

text: Umma, Ur III

title: 18*


title: View from the top of the Great Pyramid

text: Great Pyramid (Egypt)

text: Pyramids

text: Egypt

text: Cairo

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: View from the top of the Great Pyramid

text: Wood engravings


title: 19

text: Cuneiform

text: Drehem, Ur III

text: Eames 19*

title: 19


title: Village barbers. The two singular structures on the left are pigeon-houses. The domes are formed of earthen pots of oval form ; each pair of pigeons occupies a separate pot.  These birds are kept solely for the sake of the manure they yield.

namePart: Orr, Nathaniel

text: Barbers

text: Egypt

text: Trees

text: Egypt

text: Children

text: Egypt

text: Dovecotes

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: 20

text: Cuneiform

text: Drehem, Ur III

text: Eames 20*

title: 20


title: The Sphinx. Called by the Arabs "Father of terrors." It faces the east, and is hewn out of the natural rock.

text: Campfires

text: Sphinxes

text: Egypt

text: Jîzah

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: 21

text: Cuneiform

text: Drehem, Ur III

text: Eames 21*

title: 21


title:
The
    fallen statue of Rameses II at Memphis.  The soft mud in which it is embedded has perfectly preserved the well-cut features and all the front part of the figure.  During about eight months of the year it is partly covered by the waters of the overflowing Nile.

text: Ramses II, King of Egypt

text: Statues

text: Memphis (Extinct city)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: 22

text: Cuneiform

text: Eames 22*

text: Drehem, Ur III

title: 22


title:
The
    Pyramid of Steps at Sakkârah.  Constructed of an inferior clayey kind of limestone quarried in the neighborhood.  Possibly the oldest monument in Egypt.

text: Egypt

text: Pyramids

text: Egypt

text: Saqqârah

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: 23

text: Cuneiform

text: Drehem, Ur III

text: Eames 23*

title: 23


title: 24

text: Cuneiform

text: Eames 24*

text: Umma, Ur III

title: 24


title: The pyramid of Meydûm.  The Arabs call it "The False Pyramid." Its outer walls consist of admirably jointed and polished blocks of Mukattam stone. The base is hidden by a heap of debris.

text: Pyramids

text: Egypt

text: Bodies of water

text: Egypt

text: Sailboats

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Tomb of a Muslim saint at Minyeh.  Shaded by an ancient sycamore-tree.  It is on the north side of the town, near to the spot where boats are generally moored.

namePart: Harley

text: Tombs & sepulchral monuments

text: Egypt

text: Bodies of water

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: View of the Nile from the tombs of Beny Hasan. These grottos, the interior of one of which is also shown, were excavated by a single family of the time of the Twelfth Dynasty.

text: Tombs & sepulchral monuments

text: Egypt

text: Nile River

text: Caves

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: The gateway of Asyût. It opens into a large gateway court which forms part of the governor's palace and leads into the town.

text: Eating & drinking

text: Egypt

text: Asyût

text: Gates

text: Egypt

text: Asyût

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: The necropolis of Asyût, consisting of ancient rock-tombs and a modern cemetary (to the right), approached from the town by a bridge over a canal which skirts the cultivated land.

text: Tombs & sepulchral monuments

text: Egypt

text: Asyût

text: Canals

text: Egypt

text: Asyût

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.


title: Pigeon-towers on the Nile. The battlements are formed of earthenware pots, and rows of Indian corn stalks project from the loopholed walls to serve as perches.

text: Palms

text: Egypt

text: Nile River

text: Dovecotes

text: Egypt

text: Sailboats

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title:
A
    silhouette on the Nile.  A group of the slate colored buffaloes of the country being watered is one of the commonest sights on the Nile.

text: Nile River

text: Buffaloes

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Girgeh, from the mooring-place on the south side.

text: Nile River

text: Jirjâ (Egypt)

text: Minarets

text: Egypt

text: Jirjâ

text: Waterfronts

text: Egypt

text: Jirjâ

text: Sailboats

text: Egypt

text: Jirjâ

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Shadûf. The weight of the water in the bucket is balanced by the lump of Nile mud at the other end of the swinging beam, and the water is thus raised to the mouth of the canal with little effort; but pulling the bucket down is hard work, and the machine is ruinously extravagant in labour.

text: Canals

text: Egypt

text: Water use

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title:
A
    Ptolemaic temple, dedicated to the goddess Hathor, the Egyptian Aphrodite, and famous for its portaits of Cleopatra.

text: Temples

text: Egypt

text: Dandara

text: Hathor (Egyptian deity)

text: Dandara (Egypt)

text: Sheep

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title:
The
    plain of Thebes from near Karnak.  In the foreground is seen a modern saint's tomb in the middle-distance, the lateen sails of the Nile boats, the twin Colossi, and the Ramesêum stand out above the river, and the view is closed by the finest mountain in Egypt, whose steep ships are honeycombed with tombs, and whose towering mass guards and conceals the gloomy "Valley of the Kings" behind.

text: colossi

text: Egypt

text: Thebes (Extinct city)

text: Nile River

text: Tombs & sepulchral monuments

text: Egypt

text: Thebes (Extinct city)

text: Mountains

text: Egypt

text: Sailboats

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title:
The
    Valley of the Tombs of the Kings. The interior of one of the tombs, dimly lighted by those torches wherewith travellers blacken and destroy monuments, is shown beneath.

text: Tombs & sepulchral monuments

text: Egypt

text: Valley of the Kings

text: Valley of the Kings (Egypt)

text: Interiors

text: Egypt

text: Valley of the Kings

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: The Ramesêum. The remains of the great hypostyle of the Temple of Rameses II.  The figures of Christian slaves have been painted on some of the columns.

text: Temples

text: Egypt

text: Thebes (Extinct city)

text: Archaeological sites

text: Egypt

text: Thebes (Extinct city)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: The fallen colossus of Rameses.

text: colossi

text: Egypt

text: Thebes (Extinct city)

text: Ramses II, King of Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Caption is a quotation from Shelley's " The Fallen Colossus of Rameses."

title: The fallen colossus of Rameses.

text: Wood engravings


title: The vocal Memnon.  The nearer colossus formerly gave forth a low sound when the rays of the rising sun first glanced upon it.  The "song of Memnon" was famous in Roman times and is even said to have been heard in the present century.

text: Amenhotep III, King of Egypt

text: colossi

text: Egypt

text: Thebes (Extinct city)

text: Bodies of water

text: Egypt

text: Thebes (Extinct city)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Pylon of the temple of Thothmes III. At Medînet Habû.  Commonly called the small temple, in contradistinction to its greater neighbour. It has been restored and added to in Ptolomaic and Roman times.

text: Temples

text: Egypt

text: Thebes (Extinct city)

text: Thutmose III, King of Egypt

text: Archaeological sites

text: Egypt

text: Thebes (Extinct city)

text: Pylons (Gateways)

text: Egypt

text: Thebes (Extinct city)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: The court of the great temple of Rameses III. At Medînet Habû.  The short pillars in front belonged to the church which the Copts erected within this noble peristyle court, and of which many other columns strew the ground.

text: Columns

text: Egypt

text: Thebes (Extinct city)

text: Temples

text: Egypt

text: Thebes (Extinct city)

text: Ramses III, King of Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title:
The
    mosque of Luxor. Ornamented in black upon a white-washed ground in the manner characteristic of Upper Egypt.

text: Luxor (Egypt)

text: Mosques

text: Egypt

text: Luxor

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: The obelisk of Luxor.  The hieroglyphics are cleanly and deeply cut in the red granite.  The fellow of this monolith has been carried away to Paris, and set up in the Place de la Concorde.

text: Hieroglyphics

text: Obelisks

text: Egypt

text: Luxor

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Luxor.

namePart: Godfrey, John (ca. 1817-1889)

text: Temples

text: Egypt

text: Luxor

text: Luxor (Egypt)

text: Nile River

text: Archaeological sites

text: Egypt

text: Luxor

text: Sailboats

text: Egypt

text: Luxor

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: Luxor.

text: Steel engravings


title: Niche in an ancient Christian church, Luxor. Part of the temple of Amenoph III, converted into a church.  Frescoes, of some pretentions to artistic merit, half cover the ancient bas-reliefs ; and the figures of Egyptian gods mingle eccentrically with the aureoles of Christian saints.

text: Temples

text: Egypt

text: Luxor

text: Luxor (Egypt)

text: Arches

text: Egypt

text: Luxor

text: Bas-reliefs

text: Egypt

text: Luxor

text: churches

text: Egypt

text: Luxor

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title:
The
    gate of Ptolemy Euergetes, Karnak.  Showing the pylon of the Temple of Khons beyond.  An avenue of rams leads up to this beautiful gate, which is the most gracely of all the structures at Karnak.

text: Pylons (Gateways)

text: Egypt

text: Karnak

text: Karnak (Egypt)

text: Ptolemy III Euergetes, King of Egypt, d. 221 B.C.

text: Bas-reliefs

text: Egypt

text: Karnak

text: Gates

text: Egypt

text: Karnak

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title:
The
    smaller obelisk of Karnak.  Belonging to the pylon of Thomthmes I.  The fragments of a fellow obelisk strew the ground.  Behind is seen the central avenue of the Hall of Columns, and the clerestory windows are shown at the left-hand side.

text: Columns

text: Egypt

text: Karnak

text: Karnak (Egypt)

text: Obelisks

text: Egypt

text: Karnak

text: Archaeological sites

text: Egypt

text: Karnak

text: Bas-reliefs

text: Egypt

text: Karnak

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title:
The
    leaning column, Karnak. In one side of the aisles of the Hall of Columns. The base is worn and the foundations undermined by the Nile, which at the inundation rises some six feet above the level of the floor.

text: Columns

text: Egypt

text: Karnak

text: Karnak (Egypt)

text: Hieroglyphics

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Grand column of Karnak. At the west entrance to the Hall of Columns.  The central avenue is here seen from the opposite end to that shown on the engraving on page 449.

text: Columns

text: Egypt

text: Karnak

text: Karnak (Egypt)

text: Obelisks

text: Egypt

text: Karnak

text: Archaeological sites

text: Egypt

text: Karnak

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title:
The
    great temple at Karnak.

namePart: Armytage, James Charles (d. 1897)

text: Columns

text: Egypt

text: Karnak

text: Pylons (Gateways)

text: Egypt

text: Karnak

text: Temples

text: Egypt

text: Karnak

text: Karnak (Egypt)

text: Nile River

text: Archaeological sites

text: Egypt

text: Karnak

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: The great temple at Karnak.

text: Steel engravings


title:
The
    Nile, from Luxor. The two women in the foreground wear the ordinary black burko', or veil, joined to the head-dress by a piece of cane placed between the eyes.

text: Nile River

text: Clothing & dress

text: Egypt

text: Luxor

text: Women

text: Egypt

text: Luxor

text: Sailboats

text: Egypt

text: Luxor

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title:
The
    Dôm palm.  Groups of these eccentric-looking trees form a characteristic feature of the scenery of upper Egypt.  They are not found south of the Thebaïd.

text: Palms

text: Egypt

text: Nile River

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Temple of Edfû.  The towers of the great pylon are one hundred and twenty feet high, and in almost perfect preservation.  The columns of the hypostyle hall are seen over the wall of the enclosure, which springs from the pylon and runs around the whole building.

text: Idfû (Egypt)

text: Hieroglyphics

text: Bas-reliefs

text: Egypt

text: Idfû

text: Temples

text: Egypt

text: Idfû

text: Pylons (Gateways)

text: Egypt

text: Idfû

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Doorway of a side chapel of the temple of Edfû.  After leaving this chapel the priestly procession ascended the winding stone staircase opposite, which conducts by a series of easy steps to the roof.

text: Hieroglyphics

text: Bas-reliefs

text: Egypt

text: Idfû

text: Doors & doorways

text: Egypt

text: Idfû

text: Smoking

text: Egypt

text: Idfû

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Philae.

text: Temples

text: Egypt

text: Philae

text: Nile River

text: Philae (Egypt)

text: Archaeological sites

text: Egypt

text: Philae

text: Sailboats

text: Egypt

text: Philae

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: Philae.

text: Steel engravings


title: Rock tombs or Gebel-es-Silsileh.  At this point the Nile is scarcely eleven hundred feet wide.  The rocky barrier through which the river has forced its way is honeycombed with grottoes of the time of the great Theban dynasties.

namePart: Filmer, John

text: Nile River

text: Tombs & sepulchral monuments

text: Egypt

text: Silsila, Gebel el-

text: Sailboats

text: Egypt

text: Silsila, Gebel el-

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Distant view of Kom Ombo.  The fine Ptolemaic temple stands out boldly on the edge of the cliff, over which it is gradually falling in a cascade of white masonry.

text: Nile River

text: Sailboats

text: Egypt

text: Ombos (Extinct city)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Aswân, the Syene of Juvenal.  The chief entrance to the town is beneath the two noble lebbekh trees to the left of the minaret, and opposite the landing place for streamers.  Dahabîyehs moor higher up, as is shown in the foreground.

text: Nile River

text: Boats

text: Egypt

text: Aswân

text: Harbors

text: Egypt

text: Aswân

text: Minarets

text: Egypt

text: Aswân

text: Steamboats

text: Egypt

text: Aswân

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: The temple of Kom Ombo,  Half buried in sand-drifts, and half fallen over the river bank, the temple of Kom Ombo is one of the lonliest, and, at a distance, the most impressive of the smaller shrines of Egypt.

namePart: Badoureau, Ed.

text: Temples

text: Egypt

text: Ombos (Extinct city)

text: Hieroglyphics

text: Temple of Sobek and Haroeris (Ombos)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engraving


title: On the island of Elephantinê.  A large number of potsherds, inscribed with interesting Coptic and Demotic temple records, are constantly picked up on the island by the natives, who drive a profitable trade in these valuable archives.

text: Palms

text: Egypt

text: Nile River

text: Elephantine (Egypt)

text: Sailboats

text: Egypt

text: Elephantine

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Looking north from the island of Elephantinê.  At Aswân the inhabitants are still mainly of the Egyptian type, but at Elephantiné the population is wholly Nubian.

text: Palms

text: Egypt

text: Nile River

text: Buildings

text: Egypt

text: Elephantine

text: Elephantine (Egypt)

text: Sailboats

text: Egypt

text: Elephantine

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engraving


title: General view of Philae, taken from Bibbeh.  In the great temple in the centre of the view the sacred college still celebrated the mysteries of Isis and Osiris so late as A.D. 443, and thus for sixty-four years resisted the forcible conversion of Egypt to Christianity which followed the edict of Theodosius.

text: Temples

text: Egypt

text: Philae

text: Nile River

text: Philae (Egypt)

text: Bas-reliefs

text: Egypt

text: Philae

text: Sailboats

text: Egypt

text: Philae

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Manhattah, near Philae, on the Nile.  The home of many of the Shellális or boatmen of the Cataract.

text: Palms

text: Egypt

text: Nile River

text: Waterfronts

text: Egypt

text: Sailboats

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title:
The
    approach to Philae.  'In the time of the Ptolemies visitors from all parts of Egypt, travellers from distant lands, court functionaries from Alexandria, came annually in crowds to pay their vows at the tomb of the god.'

text: Temples

text: Egypt

text: Philae

text: Nile River

text: Philae (Egypt)

text: Rock formations

text: Egypt

text: Philae

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Looking south from Philae.

text: Nile River

text: Philae (Egypt)

text: Bas-reliefs

text: Egypt

text: Philae

text: Columns

text: Egypt

text: Philae

text: Sailboats

text: Egypt

text: Philae

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: Looking south from Philae.

text: Wood engravings


title: Noorian-II

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim Noorian-II

text: Nippur ?, Ur III

text: Eames Noor02

title: Noorian-II


title: Hypaethral temple at Philae. Commonly known as 'Pharoah's bed.' One of the gems of Egypt, and exquisitely set.

text: Temples

text: Egypt

text: Philae

text: Nile River

text: Moonlight

text: Egypt

text: Philae

text: Waterfronts

text: Egypt

text: Philae

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Nubian water-wheel.  In Nubia these sâkiyehs take the place of shadûfs of Upper Egypt, and though they are costly to erect they effect a considerable saving of labor.

text: Waterwheels

text: Egypt

text: Nile River

text: Irrigation

text: Egypt

text: Water use

text: Egypt

text: Sailboats

text: Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title:
The
    temple of Aboo Simbel, in Nubia.  The most wonderful of all the temples of Rameses the Greet, excavated in the solid rock.

text: Temples

text: Egypt

text: Abû Sunbul

text: Abû Sunbul (Egypt)

text: Ramses II, King of Egypt

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title:
A
    map of Egypt and Sinai

namePart: Edward Stanford Ltd.

type: corporate

text: Egypt

text: Sinai (Egypt)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: A map of Egypt and Sinai

text: color lithographs  SEE ALSO chromolithograph


title: Bab. 12

text: Cuneiform

text: Drehem, Ur III

text: Eames Bab 18 = Draper 12 ?

title: Bab. 12


title: Bab. 19

text: Cuneiform

text: Drehem, Ur III

text: Eames Bab 19

title: Bab. 19


title: Bab. 22

text: Cuneiform

text: Drehem, Ur III

text: Eames Bab 22 and Draper 22 ?

title: Bab. 22


title: Esmeralda.

originInfo: 1859BerlinVerlag von Eduard Bloch, Brüder Str. No. 2

callNumber: *MGZFB Bog N Esm 1

namePart: Bogdanova, Nadezhda Konstantinovna, 1836-1897

type: titleInfo

text: Esmeralda (Choreographic work : Perrot)

authority: local

text: Prints (Graphic arts) -- Ballet -- 19th century

text: Ballet -- Germany -- 19th century

text: Drawn in the studio of Louis Veit, after a photograph by R. Marovsky.

text: Caption: Kaiserliches Hoftheater zu St. Petersburg.

text: To right, seated on couch, tambourine in right hand, left hand at cheek; the name Phoebus is written upside down at her feet.

text: Cf. *MGTI  Victoria and Albert  Museum.  Ballet designs. 1967. Reproduction and commentary.

title: Nadejda Bagdanoff als Esmeralda in Esmeralda. Ballet in 2 Acten von Julius Perrot (Musik von Cäsar Pugni)

type: uniform

text: Prints

collectionTitle: Prints depicting dance


title: Fée et le chevalier

originInfo:
Wien

    Lith. Institut
    [1823]

callNumber: *MGZFB Bru A Fée 1

namePart: Brugnoli, Amalia, active 1820-1840

text: Rozier, Jean, 1789-1861

text: Fée et le chevalier (Choreographic work : Vestris)

text: Ballet -- Austria -- 19th century

text: Initialed lower right: I. J.

text: Brugnoli and Rozier in Armand Vestris' ballet La fée et le chevalier, produced in Vienna in 1823; Brugnoli in arabesque on right pointe, looking at her partner; Rozier, in deep plié, supports her around waist.

text: Cf. *MGTI  New York Public Library. Dance Collection. Images of the dance, 1965, pp. 40-41.  Reproduction and commentary.

title: Hr. Rozier und Dlle. Brugnoli im Ballete die Fee und der Ritter

text: Prints


title: The three Graces

originInfo: 1846N. Y.lith. & pub. by J. Baillie, 188 Nassau St.

callNumber: *MGZFD Bai J Thr 1

text: Elssler, Fanny, 1810-1884

text: Taglioni, Marie, 1804-1884

text: Cerrito, Fanny

title: The three Graces

abstracts: The central figure, representing Fanny Elssler in her Cachucha costume, to the right, looking left, is supported on her right by Cerrito in the Pas de Diane from La jolie fille de Gand and on her left by Taglioni in the title-role of La sylphide.

text: Prints


title: Portrait

callNumber: *MGZFB Cer F P 1

namePart: Cerrito, Fanny

namePart: Hüssener, Auguste, 1789-1877

text: Auguste Hüssener sc.

text: Half length to right, looking left, flower at center of lace bertha.

title: Fanny Cerrito

title: Fanny Cerrito

text: Prints


title: Portrait.

originInfo: 18101819Paris?single unit

callNumber: *MGZFB Gar P P 1

namePart: Gardel, Pierre, 1758-1840

text: Bust portrait; looking to right.

type: acquisition

text: Cia Fornaroli Collection.

title: Gardel. Maitre de Ballets du Théatre de l'Opera à Paris. No. 3.

text: Prints