"Tomb of Sety Ist.", Egypt
name: label: Creator
content: Gaddis & Seif (Luxor (Egypt))
place: label: Place
content: Egypt
topic: label: Topic
content: Transportation
creator: label: Creator
content: Gaddis & Seif (Luxor (Egypt))
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content: Stephen Grant postcards
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content: Stephen Grant postcards / Egypt - Thebes
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content: 1 Postcard (Binder, color, 5.5 x 3.5 in)
container: label: Container
content: Binder 17
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2001-001, Item EEPA 2001-001-4820
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content: Archival materials
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content: Postcards
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content: Postcards
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content: Title created by archives staff; typed description on verso
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content: Tomb of Sety Ist. Son of Rameses Ist. Con-[,]structed the most wonderful of all the palatial[,] buildings in Egypt, Nubia and Ethiopia amongst[,] which is the Great Hall of Columns at Karnak.[,] Constructed also the most imposing of the rock[,] tombs. The tall black figure with white eyes (in the[,] left of picture) represents the shade or shadow[,] of the king, to be united to him that he may be[,] complete in his new life. Upper part represents[,] life in the hidden land beyond this world, called[,] by the ancients, "the Duat". Solar barque shown[,] crossing the divisions of the underworld, the god[,] Khnem standing within a shrine with a cobra frieze[,] to protect the solar barque from harmful agencies[,] while drawn by four servants through this division,[,] some of the denizens of which are shown in the[,] lower scenes.; CARTE POSTALE. Published by A. CADDIS & SONS -- LUXOR