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Ultima Thule, Dec 28th, from the top of the Rock on the 2nd Cataract

Courtesy of a private collector | All Rights Reserved

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Date

28 December 1846

Artist

Circle of Robert Elwes (1819-1878)

Collection

Private Collection

Acknowledgements

Digitised by TWW

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All Rights Reserved

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Courtesy of a private collector

Location

Rock of Abusir, Wadi Halfa, Sudan

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TWW Comment

The rock was on the Second Cataract (or Great Cataract) of the Nile in Nubia and is now submerged under Lake Nasser. Elwes may have used the term Ultima Thule after Karl Kumm who coined it to refer to southern edge of Muslim North Africa based on a term Greek explorers used for borders of the known world.

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