The Entrance to Great Pyramid by Boston Public Library

BPLDC no.: 08_04_000022
Page Title: The Entrance to Great Pyramid
Collection: Tupper Scrapbooks Collection
Album: Volume 26: Lower Egypt. Pyramids.
Call no. 4098B.104 v26 (p. 21)
Creator: Tupper, William Vaughn
Description: Scrapbook page containing one annotated photograph of a man standing in front of the entrance to the Cheops Pyramid in Egypt. The page includes a sketch of Cheops’s name in hieroglyphics, which is painted in the interior of the pyramid.
Subjects:
Egypt
travel photography
pyramids (tombs)
Jīzah, Ahrāmāt al-
Page size: 33 x 38.1 cm
Annotations:
The entrance to this pyramid as to all others is on the north side and is about 45 feet above the ground. “A.” One descends first as far as D where was a granite door so hard that plundering Arabs were forced to cut a new way through the limestone round it. This passage is only a trifle over 3 ft. high. From this point the visitor ascends to the Great Hall with its wonderful masonry, with its marvelous jointing and polish, so perfect that neither a needle nor a hair can be inserted between the joints. Passing through an Antechamber one comes to the Kings Chamber. J.
This chamber has for a roof nine enormous slabs of granite 18 ½ ft long –it contains nothing now but the broken lidless sarcophagus of Cheops. Its floor is 140 ft above ground.
Above the Kings Chamber are five hollow chambers. On the stones of one of them “O” was found in red paint the name of Kufu (Cheops)- Below the Kings Chamber is the Queens Chamber with its wonderful pointed roof-
Name of Cheops in red in the interior of the Pyramid- Lepsius.
Language: English, photograph has French title
Rights: No known restrictions.
Coverage: Egypt
Notes: Title supplied by cataloger, derived from captions or annotated information. Letters mentioned in annotation correspond with a diagram on the following page.
Format: Scrapbooks
Technique: Photographs, Albumen prints
BPL Department: Print Department
Photo 1:
Photographer: G. Lékégian & Cie.
Title: Entrée de la Pyramide. No 14.
Caption: The Entrance to Great Pyramid
Date: ca. 1865-1895

Flickr data on 2011-08-03:

Camera: Sinar AG Sinarback 54 FW, Sinar m
License: CC BY 2.0
User: Boston Public Library BPL