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Egypt. Saqqara. Step pyramid enclosure of Netjerikhet. Tiled rooms I and II

Plans with measurements and inscriptions of tiled rooms I and II of step pyramid enclosure of Netjerikhet at Saqqara (TopBib iii2.400):

  • pencil sketch on paper
  • loose
  • 17.1 x 11.3 cm
  • [on sketch] 'height of room A 7„4 / doors 5 feet' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] '4 repetitions' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'hieroglyphs over door 22' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'passages blocked up all dismantled masonry stones / masonry destroyed / cavern' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] '3.8 wide / masonry / masonry' (pencil note)

Joseph Bonomi Collection

  • Bonomi MSS
  • Collection
  • c. 1824-1870s

1) Bonomi drawings and paintings: 52 handmade ‘portfolios’ containing pencil and pastel drawings, watercolours, tracings and commercial prints, almost certainly arranged by Bonomi, some later rearrangement was done by Bonomi's descendants [Bonomi MSS 1-52].
2) Typescript of diary: carbon-copy(?) typescript of extracts from Joseph Bonomi’s diary, entries for periods in Egypt dating between 25th March 1829 to 26th May 1834 [Bonomi MSS 53].

Bonomi, Joseph

Egypt. West Bank. Thebes. Valley of the Kings. Tomb of Ay (KV 23). Corner fragment of sarcophagus with winged goddess and prenomen, formerly in possession of the Royal Asiatic Society, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, Temp. No. 3.8.39.1

Corner fragment of the sarcophagus of Ay with winged goddess and prenomen, from the Tomb of Ay (KV 23) in the Valley of the Kings, on the West Bank of Thebes, formerly in possession of the Royal Asiatic Society, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, Temp. No. 3.8.39.1 (TopBib i2.551):

  • pencil tracing on tracing paper
  • loose
  • 16.2 x 18.2 cm

Three sketches of objects in the Hertz collection (hieroglyphic inscription of kohl pot, bronze statuette of classical goddess and amulet or seal) and squeeze of seal(?)

Three sketches of objects in the Hertz collection (hieroglyphic inscription of kohl pot, bronze statuette of classical goddess and amulet or seal) and squeeze of seal(?):

  • pencil sketches and squeeze on paper
  • loose
  • 18.4 x. 11.4 cm
  • [on sketch] 'Cohol blue porcelain vase / in Hertz Col' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'bronze in / Heztr [sic] / Col' (pencil note)

Egypt. Mit Rahina. Ptah Enclosure. Enclosure Wall. Found near South Gate. Kneeling statue of Paser, Vizier (TT 106), with figure of Ptah, cartouche of Ramesses II, granite, temp. Sethos I to Ramesses II, in Durham, Oriental Museum, N.511 / EG4003

Front view of kneeling statue of Paser, Vizier (TT 106), with figure of Ptah, cartouche of Ramesses II, granite, temp. Sethos I to Ramesses II, found near the South Gate of the Wall of the Ptah Enclosure at Mit Rahina, now in Durham, Oriental Museum, N.511 / EG4003 (TopBib iii2.838):

  • pencil sketch on paper
  • loose
  • 14.8 x 25.5 cm

Egypt. West Bank. Thebes. Valley of the Kings. Tomb of Ay (KV 23). Corner fragment of sarcophagus with winged goddess and prenomen, formerly in possession of the Royal Asiatic Society, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, Temp. No. 3.8.39.1

Corner fragment of the sarcophagus of Ay with winged goddess and prenomen, from the Tomb of Ay (KV 23) in the Valley of the Kings, on the West Bank of Thebes, formerly in possession of the Royal Asiatic Society, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, Temp. No. 3.8.39.1 (TopBib i2.551):

  • pencil sketch on paper
  • loose
  • 12.2 x 20.3 cm

Princess wearing a side-lock and diadem and carrying a lotus-flower (mirrored but with slightly different details), not identified but similar to the young princess Neferubiti, daughter of Tuthmosis I and Queen Ahmosi, from Room X preceding the Sanctuary in the Great Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, on the West Bank of Thebes

Princess wearing a side-lock and diadem and carrying a lotus-flower (mirrored but with slightly different details), not identified but similar to the young princess Neferubiti, daughter of Tuthmosis I and Queen Ahmosi, from Room X preceding the Sanctuary in the Great Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, on the West Bank of Thebes (TopBib ii2.365-366(132):
-pencil sketches/tracings on tracing paper
-loose
-12.3 x 9.5 cm

Egypt. El-Ashmunein. Re-used blocks from Amarna. Cartouches of Neferneferuaten-Nefertiti and Akhenaten on a block, probably basalt, formerly in J. Traill's collection and current location not known

Cartouches of Neferneferuaten-Nefertiti and Akhenaten on a block, probably basalt, originally from Amarna but found at el-Ashmunein, formerly in J. Traill's collection and current location not known:

  • pencil sketches and ink notes on paper
  • partially mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.2 [Top and Middle]
  • 6.3 x 9.9 cm
  • [on sketches] 'Cairo' (ink note)
  • [on sketches] 'Mr Traill's fragment' (ink note)
  • [on mount] '2' (pencil note)

Note

Note:

  • pencil text on paper
  • partially mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.3 [Top and Middle]
  • 5.4 x 5.5 cm
  • [text] '1843 / Cairo to Wady Halfa / and back in 44 days / journey completed by the / end of September / Nº/ 24 Edinboro or Quarterly account of / Eastern Africa' (pencil note)
  • [on mount] '3' (pencil note)

Note and diagram

Note (probably address) and diagram (probably street plan):

  • pencil text and sketch on paper
  • partially mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.14 [Upper]
  • 4.4 x 4.8 cm
  • [text] 'Rue Tronchet / 29' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] '5 / 7 / 9 / 11' (pencil notes)
  • [on mount] '10' (pencil note)

Philae, Elephantine, Aswan and Kom Ombo

Portfolio titled 'Philoe. / Elephantine, Assuan, Comombo' (ink, last word added in pencil)
Red pencil note at top right corner: encircled 'F' (reference to previous arrangement, almost certainly introduced by Dr Moss).

Egypt. Aswan

View of Aswan from the 'Quay' of Elephantine:

  • pencil sketch on paper
  • mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 6.7 (upper)
  • 19.7 x 12.7 cm
  • [on sketch] 'Assuan' (pencil note)
  • [on mount] '9' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Drawings Egypt

Portfolio titled 'Drawings / Egypt / JB.' (ink)
Red pencil note at top right corner: encircled 'H' (reference to previous arrangement, almost certainly introduced by Dr Moss)
Pencil note: 'Furniture (rubbed out), Abu Simbel. etc. / and Nubian Temple ?' (almost certainly by Dr Moss).

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