2-751-320 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Capital from Karnak, Egypt, (1928). 'Spreading papyrus cluster capital...From the middle aisle of the great columned hall of the great Temple of Amun at Karnak; bears the cartouche of Rameses II...1292-1225 B.C.' After Prisse d'Avennes. Plate IV, fig 8, 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]