2-751-321 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Capital from Philae, Egypt, (1928). 'Combined plant capital from the great Temple of Isis at Philae, begun by Ptolemy II and completed by Euergetes I...3rd century B.C.' After Prisse D'Avennes. Plate IV, fig 11, 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]