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BPLDC no.: 08_04_000016

Page Title: The Pests of the Pyramids

Collection: Tupper Scrapbooks Collection

Album: Volume 26: Lower Egypt. Pyramids.

Call no. 4098B.104 v26 (p. 15)

Creator: Tupper, William Vaughn

Description: Scrapbook page with one photograph showing a group of children gathered in the middle of the road leading to the Egyptian Pyramids, annotated with additional information about the Pyramids.

Subjects: Egypt travel photography pyramids (tombs) group portraits children (people by age group) Pyramids--Egypt--Al-Qāhirah

Page size: 33 x 38.1 cm

Annotations: Traditions exist that these Pyramids were covered by inscriptions and while no traces remain it is quite in – accord with the habits of the Egyptians. Inasmuch as temples, obelisks, and mastabas are covered with inscriptions it is quite natural to infer that the same course should have been pursued with the Pyramids. The Copts have a legend that one inscription read “I have built the Pyramid in sixty years let him who come after me try to destroy it in six hundred. I have covered it with silk let them try to cover it with mats.” Myth describes a Lady of the Pyramids, a beautiful naked woman with dazzling teeth enthroned on [continued next page]

Language: English, photograph has French title

Rights: No known restrictions.

Coverage: Egypt

Notes: Title supplied by cataloger, derived from captions or annotated information.

Format: Scrapbooks

Technique: Photographs, Albumen prints

BPL Department: Print Department

Photo 1: Photographer: Zangaki, Constantine

Title: No. 388 La retoure des Pyramides

Caption: The pests of the Pyramids

Date: ca. 1860-1890


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  • User: Boston Public Library BPL
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December 21, 1892—March 8, 1893

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