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Archaeological sonar survey, Jeziret Faraun (Gulf of Aqaba, Israel) - Robert H. Rines, 1971
Major collection: Science & Technology
Named collection: Harold E. Edgerton Collection
Object type: color slide
Maker: Edgerton, Harold Eugene
Place made: United States
Date made: 1971-02-
Materials: 35mm film; cardboard
Site location: Jeziret Faraun, Gulf of Aqaba, Israel
Measurements: 2" x 2"
HEE-SC-05828
Named collection: Harold E. Edgerton Collection
Object type: color slide
Maker: Edgerton, Harold Eugene
Place made: United States
Date made: 1971-02-
Materials: 35mm film; cardboard
Site location: Jeziret Faraun, Gulf of Aqaba, Israel
Measurements: 2" x 2"
Robert H. Rines (?) and another person pull a motorboat in very shallow water within the supposed "cothon" (artificial harbor) on the island of Jeziret Faraun (Pharaoh's Island, off the coast of Sinai, Israel), site of an archaeological sonar survey project in 1971. (CC)
HEE-SC-05828
