Tableau Representing the Names of the Hero in the Tomb

Category

Library Item

Item no

31047

Title

Tableau representing the two niches supposed to include the names of the hero deposited in the Tomb

Artist / maker

Ricci, J

Date

1820

Size

37.0 x 40.0 cm

Type

Lithograph

Location

Reference Library

Giovanni Battista Belzoni was an Italian explorer and archaeologist, born in Padua (Padova). In 1803 he was working in England as a circus strong man, and exhibiting models of hydraulic engines. In 1815 he went to Cairo to try and sell his hydraulic engines to Muhammad 'Ali Pasha, and within two years had begun a new career, excavating Egyptian tombs and temples.

Psammuthis was an Egyptian Pharaoh of the Twenty-ninth Dynasty during 393 BC.

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Religion > Religious gods and goddesses > Gods & Goddesses

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Tableau representing the names of the hero in the Tomb