2-750-407 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Vulture ceiling decorations, Philae, Egypt, (1928). '370 B.C. And 3rd Century B.C. The upper condor comes from the ceiling of the portal of the Temple of Isis at Philae. The lower condor comes from the portal of Nektanebis (378-361 B.C.) at Philae built by this sovereign who was the mightiest of the XXXth Dynasty'. After Prisse D'Avennes. Plate XIII, fig 39, 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]