Back to the Temple of Dendur & Uncle George

On Sunday, we went to the Met because. . .well, you don't really need a reason, do you? Del wanted to see the Egyptian collections, and I hadn't seen them since I lived in NYC. We finally got through the blocked streets, police barriers, and closed transverses, and arrived at Fifth Avenue, where the Puerto Rico Day parade was in full swing (and running three hours late). We slid through the crowd into the museum.The temple of Dendur[1] has always been my favorite exhibit at the Met. Before we arrived in the temple's pavillion, we saw hundreds of scrolls, tombs, papyrus, paintings, mummies, artifacts, mummies, and sarcophagi. Time was short, so we raced up to the American painting wing to see some old favorites, particularly "George Washington Crossing the Deleware" and then we went to see the classical/old master painting/Flemish/Florentine paintings.

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[1] According to the Wikipedia, "The Temple of Dendur, Roman period, ca. 15 B.C.Egyptian; Dendur, NubiaSandstone; L. from gate to rear of temple 82 ft. (24 m 60 cm)Given to the United States by Egypt in 1965, awarded to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1967, and installed in The Sackler Wing in 1978 (68.154)."

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