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Abu Simbel.
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Uploaded: 01/18/07 8:31 PM GMT
Abu Simbel.
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My favourite temple in Egypt. (Not strictly true as it sits over the border in ancient Nubia.) Built by Ramesses the Great to warn everyone entering Egypt, "I rule here, enter at your peril." When the new Aswan Dam was built this temple was moved 60 meters up the bank of the nile so that it didn't end up under the waters of the newly created Lake Nasser. The whole temple, facade and interior was cut into sections and each block lifted to its new position on the man made mountain it now resides.
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=Piner
01/18/07 9:30 PM GMT
would have been better without the guy standing there, though it does give you an idea of the scale
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The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from an artist is to make him ruin his work.
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1832)
I'm so glad they saved this one. I believe that some were lost, however. I can't remember exactly, so I'm off to go look this up. Nicely captured, by the way, and I hate to disagree with my betters, but I like the person in the photo. It really gives you the sense of not only perspective, but also that it's here with us now. My two cents' worth :)
:)PJ
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"We consider the artist to be a special sort of person. It is more likely that each of us is a special sort of artist." Elsa Gidlow
Thanks for the post...and the background information. Now I have to go look it up to find out what Pharoh after Ramses the Great got upset with person represented by the demolished (knees only) statue and (presumably) obliterated him from history. I think these statues (and probably the temple behind them) were painted orginally...which would give quite a different effect than today when everything blends into monotone.
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"The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne,
Thassay so hard, so sharp the conquering..."
Chaucer
Really neat photo! It also must have been really neat to see it in person. I believe Ramsses the Great was a great warrior, but he also had a very big mouth -- esp. about himself. The small female statues represent his wife and a daughter or two. I recall when National Geographic had a big spread on how it was moved piece by piece to its present position. Sensational!
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"If I dream I shall be real, or really myself..." Robert Penn Warren