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Kiosk of Trajan: Overall view showing landing and entrance hall

Date

Circa 1910

Creator

G. Massiot & cie
Part of: Architectural Lantern Slides of Egypt
Architecture Library, Hesburgh Libraries

View dates before High Aswan dam and removal of site (1972-1980).

The Pavilion of Trajan (also Kiosk of Trajan) is a rectangular building that has fourteen columns with beautifully carved floral capitals that once supported a wooden roof. Only two of the screen walls between the columns are completed. They show the Emperor Trajan burning incense before Isis and Osiris and offering wine to Isis and Horus. The Kiosk is often ascribed to Trajan, but might well have been built earlier than this, possibly during the reign of Augustus. This unfinished building is one of the most popular monuments of Philae and in ancient times was probably intended to serve as a ceremonial landing stage for the island temple.

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Creator
G. Massiot & cie
Date
Circa 1910
Publisher
Architecture Library, Hesburgh Libraries
Material Type
photographs
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Kiosk of Trajan: Overall view of the rear

Kiosk of Trajan: Overall view of the rear

Kiosk of Trajan: Overall view

Kiosk of Trajan: Overall view

Kiosk of Trajan: Overall view of the rear

Kiosk of Trajan: Overall view of the rear

Philae: Overall view of entire site

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