Lantern slide
- Accession Number
- EC1577
- Current Location
- In storage
- Object Type
- Photographic media, Lantern slide
- Period
- Modern
- Twentieth century CE/AD
- 1910s
- Material
- Glass
- Provenance
- Egypt, Kom Ombo
- Number of Elements
- 1
Licensing details
This image may be used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. For uses not covered under the Creative Commons license, or to license images for commercial uses,
please contact the Egypt Centre.
- Description
-
Lantern slide. Showing the temple of Kom Ombo. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The notes from his lecture read 'Under Ptolemy 4th Philometer, the erection of the great dual temple which we now see was commenced. The east half being dedicated to Sobek and his trinity and the west half to Horus trinity...'This is a similar view to EC1720.
- Other Identity
- 18
- Previous Owners
- Carmarthenshire County Museum | Sgt. James Mason Johnson (1892–1991)
- Acquisition
- Gift, Carmarthenshire County Museum (03 Apr 2007)
