The present drawing is part of a series that was made by a member of the scientific team that accompanied Bonaparte on his expedition to Egypt. This team was directed by Vivant-Denon and the members were from the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, a school which aimed at training military engineers for the Grande Armée. The expedition, which was initially designed to modernize the new colony with roads and bridges, soon became an archaeological campaign with teams of young polytechniciens recording elevations and plans of ancient temples. The drawings which were brought back to France were later published in one of the most luxurious editions of the period, La Description des Monuments de l'Egypte. The present study was most probably a gift from one of the members of the expedition to Debret.