2-751-350 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Capital from Philae, Egypt, (1928). 'Palm column from Philae, probably from the time of Augustus (31 B.C. - 14 A.D.) or of Tiberius (14-37 A.D.)' After Prisse d'Avennes. Plate IV, fig 9, 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]