Detail Taken from the Tomb of Psammuthis

Category

Library Item

Item no

31046

Title

Detail taken from the Tomb of Psammuthis

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.

The upper part of the plate represents the Eagle painted on the ceiling of the first passage in the Tomb of Psammuthis, the lower part is a Tableau taken from above the door in the sideboard-room in the same Tomb.

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Architecture > Monuments > Tombs

Communication > Written > Cartouches

Communication > Written > Hieroglyphs

Landscape > Landscape architectural facilities > Archaeological sites

Landscape > Landscape architectural facilities > Excavation

Places > Africa > Egypt

Religion > Religious gods and goddesses > Gods & Goddesses

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