Egypt: Opening of Ahmed Hamdi Tunnel built under Suez Canal by OSMAC 1976-1980 Cast bronze art medal Ron Dutton- RD178

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  Egypt: Opening of Ahmed Hamdi Tunnel built under Suez Canal by OSMAC 1976-1980 Cast bronze art medal commission by Ron Dutton- RD178  77mm.

Dutton uses landscape to express the vigour of this engineering feat:  the Suez Canal shown as a cut into the troubled earth while the tunnel is a broad single sweep.  All this under a burning sun with palm trees.

Reverse text:  AHMED HAMDI TUNNEL built under the SUEZ CANAL by OSMAC 1976-1980  (Tarmac Construction).  The text is divided by concentric waves,  imitating boring into the earth to make the tunnel.

Originally a ‘shield tunnel’ at Shallufa, now a mile long road highway with a lane in either direction.  First tunnel to join Suez in Africa and to the Sinai Peninsula in Asia.