Title(s)

Obelisk in Heliopolis
Obelisk of On (title on object)

Object type

• photograph
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-38-7

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘"Joseph married Asenath the daughter of Potipheran priest of On. Gen. XlI. 45.’

Artist

• Francis Frith (possibly)

Place

Egypte

Dating

c. 1850 - c. 1865

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 144 mm × width 95 mm

What

• monument, statue

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• The Holy Bible, containing Old and New Testaments translated out of the original tongues (RP-F-2001-7-38)