# Large Speos - View taken from the Sand Slope (Temple of Ramesses II), Abu Simbel

- By: Félix Teynard (French, 1817–1892)
- By: Goupil et Cie
- Date: 1851–52
- Medium: salted paper print from calotype negative
- Classification: Photograph
- Dimensions: Image: 23.9 x 30.8 cm (9 7/16 x 12 1/8 in.); Paper: 37.8 x 50.3 cm (14 7/8 x 19 13/16 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.)
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit line: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.234)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1992.234/1992.234_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

While other images of Abu Simbel by Teynard, Maxime Du Camp, and Antonio Beato emphasize the massive scale of the two temples carved into the rocks, this view by Teynard sets the colossal sculptures into the context of the large cliffs and vast expanses of desert. Like the temple at Philae,the temple complex at Abu Simbel was relocated in 1968 to prevent its submersion beneath the lake formed by the Aswan High Dam. This view no longer exists.