House and garden

Camp of the Italian Archaeological Mission, near the house of Latif. Schiaparelli excavations.

Property of Latif, garden separated from the house, near the camp of the Italian Archaeological Mission. Schiaparelli excavations.

Photograph taken during excavations by the Italian Archaeological Mission at Heliopolis in 1904. Seated under the pergola near the mission’s house is Francesco Ballerini's wife, Lucia Noseda, who had accompanied her husband to Egypt that year. Angelo Sesana Archive.

The garden around the house of the Italian Archaeological Mission, during excavations at Heliopolis. Angelo Sesana Archive.

Photograph of two members of the mission, on the left the cook Atallah and on the right is the young Buhus, both standing under a veranda of the house in Heliopolis. Angelo Sesana Archive.