Voyage dans la Basse et Haute Egypte : Hiéroglyphes qui sont au portique du temple de Tentyris. (Planche 131).<br /><br />

Original print folio untrimmed extracted Travellers in Lower and Upper Egypt Vivant Denon. Folding plate decorated with an engraving subdivided into three figures, and described by the author: No.1 This relief is carved on one of the beds of the portico of the great temple of Tentyra (see map, plate XL, 8). Between the two bands, No. 1, there had hieroglyphic characters, I did not have time to copy; all cartels that accompany the figures are accurate; those that can not be distinguished in the engraving are unintelligible even in the truth, or because they have been broken by printing the bullets that were fired into the ceiling or by stalactites in covered terrain: it is the same with some figures that I gave in the same state where I found them; the stars that accompany each figure and cartel announced that the purpose of these reliefs is on astronomy; entire first band is occupied by figures of serpents, as the ceiling of the portico of the temple of Latopolis at Esne. A feature of the second band is the figure of the sun under the emblem of the hawk, amid charts with stars, whose number gradually increases from one to twelve, except the last, which he be wanting in two which will probably been destroyed. Would be this year, and the sun in the middle of his race? No. 2 The following Egyptian deities are carved in this order on the frieze of the door which is under the portico Apollinopolis magna at Etfu; I joined them with severe accuracy all characters which appear to be the names, attributes or qualities of each of these figures: it is noted that fourteen of them are ready to ride fourteen empty stairs leading to a sign, which is an eye on the prow of a ship in a disc of the moon, carried on a support, ending in a lotus flower, behind which is a small divinity; the same number of steps, the same number of deities, the same sign, and the same little god, are carved on each step of the ceiling of the portico of Tentyra (same plane, # 3): I again found the same along the stairs going up to the platform of the nave to the platform of the portico of the same temple, and the same number fourteen in the small apartments on the height of the temple (see the map board CXXX, No. 1, Section B and Figure board CXXIX, No. 4). In the bas-relief of the figures have Apollinopolis legs engaged; in that of Tentyra there alternately figure of a man, a woman's face: I thought I should show these comparisons and differences material to those who will attach abstract ideas. No.3 I warn the reader that all the signs of small domestic cartels attached to the figures are accurate, but the entire border is so only in the form of inscriptions, I have not had time to take and with time I should have been able to give only very imperfectly, or by the smallness of the characters or by the distance at which they are placed, or finally by their state of decay, accelerated by the filtration of water in the use of those who lived in later times the height of the temple, and have built houses, the walls of unbaked bricks still exist. Foxing, two tiny marginal snags, otherwise good condition. Published for the first time in two volumes, an atlas of engravings, Didot, in 1802, the 'Journey to the Lower and Upper Egypt proved so successful that it was translated in 1803 into English and German, and a few years later in Dutch and Italian, among others. Almost all boards are designed by Denon, who also engraved himself a few, including portraits of the inhabitants of Egypt, who still kept the freshness of sketches taken on the spot (our 104-111 ). Two dozen writers have also collaborated on the creation of which Baltard, Galen, Reville and other etchings. Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon says Vivant Denon, born in Givry January 4, 1747 and died in Paris April 27, 1825, is a writer, author, diplomat and French administrator. At the invitation of Bonaparte, he joined the expedition to Egypt in shipping from May 14, 1798 on the frigate "La Juno." Protected by French troops, he had the opportunity to travel the country in all directions in order to gather the material that was the basis for his artistic work and the most important literary. It supports in particular General Desaix in Upper Egypt, which he refers to numerous sketches, ink wash and other drawings in pen, black chalk, or chalk. He draws constantly, usually on his knee, standing or on horseback, and sometimes even under enemy fire. After a journey of 13 months during which he draws thousands of drawings, Vivant Denon returned to France with Bonaparte, and became the first artist to publish the story of the expedition. The 141 boards that accompany his diary retrace its entire journey from the coast of Corsica to the pharaonic monuments of Upper Egypt. Bonaparte then appointed Director General of the Central Museum of the Republic, which became the Napoleon Museum and the Royal Louvre and arts administrator. In 1805, Vivant Denon revival project of the Vendome column, which had been suspended in 1803 then organizes expeditions across Europe to raise imperial works of art which are plundered to be carried away to the Louvre. In 1814, Louis XVIII confirmed as head of the Louvre, one wing of which still bears his name today. It is considered a great precursor of museology, art history and Egyptology.