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C.G. Fountaine 
Temple of Luxor, Upper Egypt 
[Photographic views taken in Egypt and Greece by C. G. Fontaine] 
1862 
  
Albumen print 
37.2 x 47.7 cm (image) 
  
The Royal Collection 
RCIN 2081574 
  
 
LL/93239 
  
View of the minaret of the Mosque of Abu al-Haggag with, in the foreground, some of the columns of the temple of Amun-Kamutef at Luxor. A local man is pictured reclining on the ground. The mosque was built on the remains of the Egyptian temple in the thirteenth century, on the site previously occupied by a church, and rebuilt several times, including in the nineteenth century. At the time, a whole village had been built on layers of sand and silt accumulated over the centuries which started to get removed in the 1880s by Gaston Maspero (1846-1916). The mosque, though, was left intact and still stands today.
 
Acquired by King Edward VII when Prince of Wales 
 

 
  
 
  
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