• Frank Mason Good (photographer)

Temple of Seti I, false arch [?], Abydos, Egypt

Carbon print from wet collodion negative

comp.: 15.9 x 20.5 cm secondary support: 31.2 x 45.4 cm

PH1979:0527:042

inscribed,signed - 42/Egypt,/Abydus. False Arch in the Temple. Here the/ roof isformed of single blocks of stone reaching/from one architrave to the other,which instead/of being placed in the usual manner, stand upon/their edges inorder to allow room for hollowing/out an arch in their thickness. (on printedlabel affixed to mount, LL, recto) signed - F.M. Good (in negative, in print, LLrecto)

Abydos; Egypt;