Portfolio titled 'Drawings, / Syria &c. / JB.' (ink).

Elevations of different Egyptian buildings and columns:

• pencil sketches on paper
• loose
• 11.7 x 16.2 cm

View of Djouni, Lady Stanhope's home, in Lebanon:

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 11.7 x 6.5 cm
• [on sketch] 'Lady Stanhope home / Juni' (pencil note)

Marks:

• pencil marks on paper
• loose
• 11.7 x 6.5 cm

Stone church with human figures on top of Mount Sinai (Jebel Musa) in Egypt:

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 14.6 x 10.2 cm
• [on sketch] 'Church on the top of Gebel Musa' (pencil note)

Landscape with human figure, possibly in Syria (not identified):

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 17 x 9.2 cm

View of building on hill top, possibly in Syria (not identified):

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 14.5 x 10 cm

View inside courtyard of mosque at possibly Aleppo in Syria (not identified):

• partially inked pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 22.7 x 18cm

Portfolio titled 'Ninivite Antiquities / JB.' (ink)
Pencil notes: 'Ninevite / Tracings'.

Lion with tongue out from the third scene of the lower register, in the Great Hall of the Great Temple of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel (TopBib vii.103.(39)-(40)):

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 41.9 x 26.8 cm
• [on sketch] '.ABOO SIMBEL.' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'lyon de Sesostrifs' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] encircled '9' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
• [on verso] encircled '4' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
• [on verso] 'Abu Symbel etc' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Relief depicting four male captives removing stones in baskets, c. 700-692 BC; sketch in grid from gypsum slab (panels 66-67) from Court VI (I) in the South-West Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh in Iraq, now in London, British Museum, BM 124821 = 1851,0902.5:

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 44.5 x 56.7 cm
• [on sketch] 'The younger men are chained {two} together / Some have fetters on their legs' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] '"Thou didst show them no mercy / whom the ancient hast thou very / heavily laid thy yoke" Isaiah 47.6 / This is said of the Babylonians but is equally / applicable as we see to the Ninevites who were in / fact under the same rule / "Woe to him that buildeth a town / with blood (underlined) and stablisheth a city / by iniquity!" Habak 2 12 / Woe to the bloody city Nahum 3 1' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'This is a remarkable expression / of age and fatigue in the attitude / and countenance of their figures / which no doubt was the intention / of the assyrian artist to convey / It represents a number of jewish? / captives carrying stones up a steep / mound so steep as to require holes / or foot steps to enable the me / to go up to its top / It may be they are conveying stones / to make an inclined / plain over which to / drag a colossal bull / to the top of one of the / artificial mounds {or hills} on / which the palaces of / the kings of Nineveh / were built.' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'The word translated blood (underlined) / in the quotation from Habakak / is [...] in the plural / perhaps to signify (partially rubbed out) the {repeated} cruel / waste of life occasioned by / own fatigue / So in the quotation from / Nahum the word bloods is [...] / which might be rendered city of bloods / {that is} city built at the cost of so many lives / a succession of captives, of deportations of the inhabitants / from neighbouring countries' (pencil note)

Relief depicting an Assyrian eunuch general with three Elamite captives, c. 660-650 BC; unfinished sketch in grid from gypsum slab (panels 4-6) from Room XXXIII in the South-West Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh in Iraq, now in London, British Museum, BM 124802.a = 1851,0902.7.a:

• Pencil sketch
• loose
• 58.6 x 44.7 cm
• [on verso] 'Josephs' (pencil note)

Detail of locusts in Bonomi MSS 32.10 (recto) and relief depicting horses being led by grooms, c. 700-692 BC; sketch from gypsum slab (panels 37-38) from Room LI (North) in the South-West Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh in Iraq, now in London, British Museum, BM 124795,a-c = 1851,0902.14:
-pencil sketches on paper
-loose
-7.7 x 17.5 cm

Names of kings, gods and places in cuneiform with their English equivalents:

• ink text on paper
• loose
• 25 x 20.2 cm
• [text]:
  'great / Rasarar RASARAR (Median) / (Westegard) /
  waz arka great Persian /
  rabhu (underlined) great / Ninevite /
  God Median / [?] BAGA. ANAP / Westegard /
  God Assyrian / AN. /
  BAGA in Persian.'

Relief depicting two ships rowing away from palace surrounded by sea creatures, c. 730 BC; drawing after Henry Layard's drawing of gypsum wall panel from the Central Palace of Tiglath-Pileser III at Nimrud (Kahlu) in Iraq, now partially in London, British Museum, BM 102981 = 1908,1010.1:

• Pencil drawing on paper
• loose
• 42 x 28.5 cm
• [on drawing] 'A.H. Layard.' (pencil note)
• [on drawing] 'Ceptre.' (pencil note)

Relief depicting soldiers in a chariot, c. 640-620 BC; sketch/tracing from gypsum slab (panels 10-12) from Court XIX (U) in the South-West Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh in Iraq, now in London, British Museum, BM 124825,b = 1851,0902.1.b:

• pencil sketch/tracing on tracing paper
• loose
• 11.4 x 8 cm

Sketch of a male figure wearing triple atef or hemhem crown:

• pencil sketch on tracing paper
• loose
• 5.7 x 12 cm

Relief depicting an eunuch attendant (head and shoulders) with fly-flapper facing left, c. 865-860 BC; sketch from gypsum slab fragment from Room G in the North-West Palace at Nimrud (Kahlu) in Iraq, currently in an unknown location:

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 23.3 x 14.5 cm