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Creation Year
January 1963
Image ID
E.037
Alternate Identifier
B05.037
Subcollection
E - Lower Egypt, Edfu, and Bodrum
Abstract
Locals resting and reading in the shade provided by the ambulatories adjacent to the mosque's courtyard. The "pre-Islamic marble columns (spolia) with Corinthian capitals" of the mosque are also visible here. -MA
References
“Jami' al-Azhar.” Archnet, https://archnet.org/sites/2311 Accessed 21 Sept. 2017.
Image Notes
Creation date unknown. Photograph processed September 1963. Formerly cataloged as B05.037. Notes written on the slide of index: El-Ahzar.
Image Format
35 mm slide
Geographic Reference
Cairo, Egypt
Keywords
Egyptian, Mosque, Masonry, Stone, Ninth Century, Stone, Columns, Column Capital, Corinthian Capitals, Colonnade, Arcade, Courtyard
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