2-751-357 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Column from Luxor, Egypt, (1928). 'Papyrus composite column with a sand-stone bud capital...from that part of the temple at Luxor built by Amenophis III...1411-1375 B.C.' After Prisse D'Avennes. Plate III, fig 4, 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]