2-751-341 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Ptolemaic capital, Edfu, Egypt, (1928). 'Spreading capital with open blossom of Nymphaea lotus from the Temple of Horus, Edfu. The edifice was begun 237 B.C. by Ptolemy III and completed by Ptolemy XIII (Neos Dionysus) 57 B.C.' After Prisse d'Avennes. Plate IV, fig 7, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928]