By Harold Hayden Nelson.
Originally published in 1941.
The plans of the Theban temples here reproduced include not only the temples proper, insofar as they survive at the ancient Egyptian capital, but also a number of minor structures which are found within their precincts and can be conveniently included in this work. The area here designated Theban includes on the east side of the Nile the temples of Karnak and Luxor and on the west side extends from the Kurnah temple of Seti I on the north to the Ptolemaic temple known as Kasr el-‘Aguz on the south. Loose inscribed blocks, not fixed in position, are omitted from the plans, as such stones are constantly shifted from place to place and locations assigned to them at one time may be totally incorrect shortly afterward. The plans therefore show only such remains as are still in situ or have been set by excavators in what appear to be fairly permanent positions. The plans here reproduced were prepared originally not for publication but merely as a convenient means of locating the photographs of these temples taken by the Epigraphic Survey of the Oriental Institute at Luxor.
OIC 27.
The Registry of the Photographic Archives of the Epigraphic Survey,
with Plates from Key Plans Showing Locations of Theban Temple Decorations.
The Epigraphic Survey.
1995
This publication of the photographic registry of the Oriental Institute's Epigraphic Survey in Luxor provides scholars with a quick reference to the photographic documentation contained in the Survey's primary archival holdings. Organized alphabetically by site and by the Nelson numbers keyed to temple decoration (devised by Harold H. Nelson, the Survey's first field director), the Registry lists all negatives available for thousands of individual scenes in Theban temples and tombs. A reprint of Nelson's thirty-eight key plans in reduced format appears as a separate plate section for convenient reference.
The plans of the Theban temples here reproduced include not only the temples proper, insofar as they survive at the ancient Egyptian capital, but also a number of minor structures which are found within their precincts and can be conveniently included in this work. The area here designated Theban includes on the east side of the Nile the temples of Karnak and Luxor and on the west side extends from the Kurnah temple of Seti I on the north to the Ptolemaic temple known as Kasr el-‘Aguz on the south. Loose inscribed blocks, not fixed in position, are omitted from the plans, as such stones are constantly shifted from place to place and locations assigned to them at one time may be totally incorrect shortly afterward. The plans therefore show only such remains as are still in situ or have been set by excavators in what appear to be fairly permanent positions. The plans here reproduced were prepared originally not for publication but merely as a convenient means of locating the photographs of these temples taken by the Epigraphic Survey of the Oriental Institute at Luxor.
OIC 27.
The Registry of the Photographic Archives of the Epigraphic Survey, with Plates from Key Plans Showing Locations of Theban Temple Decorations.
The Epigraphic Survey.
1995
This publication of the photographic registry of the Oriental Institute's Epigraphic Survey in Luxor provides scholars with a quick reference to the photographic documentation contained in the Survey's primary archival holdings. Organized alphabetically by site and by the Nelson numbers keyed to temple decoration (devised by Harold H. Nelson, the Survey's first field director), the Registry lists all negatives available for thousands of individual scenes in Theban temples and tombs. A reprint of Nelson's thirty-eight key plans in reduced format appears as a separate plate section for convenient reference.
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