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December 2003 - January 2004
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georgivs > Detail of a relief on the exterior of the National Insurance of Egypt Building, An-Nabi Danial Street, Alexandria. Just what a bare-breasted 1930s-style Cleopatra has to do with the staid business of insurance is anyone's guess.
georgivs > Alexandrian sunset with minarets, onion domes, date palms and streetlights.
georgivs > Face of the alabaster sphinx at Memphis, near Saqqara.
georgivs > Main pylon of the Temple of Horus at Edfu.This is the best preserved of all of Egypt's ancient temples - and among its largest; it looks like the priests only abandoned the place yesterday.
georgivs > Detail of a relief carving on the side of one of the monumental figures of Ramses II flanking the entrance to the Temple of Abu Simbel.
georgivs > Detail of the main pylon and gateway to the Temple of Horus, Edfu. The female pharaoh depicted on either side of the entrance is Cleopatra VII (of Antony and Cleopatra fame). Note the remnants of red, white and blue paint surrounding the Uraeus at the top of the lintel; originally the entire temple exterior and interior walls would have been brightly painted in these colours.
georgivs > Archway detail from the Mosque of Ibn Tulun, Cairo.
georgivs > Domes of the Mosque of Abu Al Abbas Al Mursi, Alexandria.
georgivs > Not happy, Jan! Detail of a Roman-era marble sarcophagus in the courtyard of the Graeco-Roman Museum, Alexandria.
Detail of a relief on the exterior of the National Insurance of Egypt Building, An-Nabi Danial Street, Alexandria. Just what a bare-breasted 1930s-style Cleopatra has to do with the staid business of insurance is anyone's guess.
 > Detail of a relief on the exterior of the National Insurance of Egypt Building, An-Nabi Danial Street, Alexandria. Just what a bare-breasted 1930s-style Cleopatra has to do with the staid business of insurance is anyone's guess.
Detail of a relief on the exterior of the National Insurance of Egypt Building, An-Nabi Danial Street, Alexandria. Just what a bare-breasted 1930s-style Cleopatra has to do with the staid business of insurance is anyone's guess.
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